Tapa Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: Examined by Michele Austin Dennehy and Natalie Firnhaber as part of Anthropology Conservation Lab treatment, 7-2006. Identified in ACL treatment report as: "Kapa moe or sleeping tapa. Five layers of tapa sewn together along one edge with a cord of twisted tapa. Three sheets are folded over at the join and the other two are flat at the join. Top layer is a pink/peach color. Color of all other layers is light terra cotta. Beater design overall is of the "upena halua pupu" type. The top layer is additionally decorated with black paint applied with bamboo stamps and reddish brown paint added between the design stripes. There are four different stamped designs in the stripes." A number "753" is printed on a small paper label glued to one corner of top sheet. Formerly on exhibit circa 1985? till 2005 in NMNH Pacific Cultures Exhibit Hall 8, case 9 where it was attributed as Hawaiian.
label: Notes
content: This object is stored rolled.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) (not certain), United States (not certain), Polynesia (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Polynesian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E361000-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 228 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 275 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 3 cm