Bark Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3483-89. CAT. 3488, ORIG. 844 AND 845. TWO SPECIMENS OF TAPA, FROM HILO, HAWAII. SAMPLES TAKEN BY K. P. EMORY, 6/24/41."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue for numbers 838 to 846 identifies them as "Tapa," cloth made of bark; printed and colored in imitation of foreign patterns by natives of Kauai, Hawaiian Islands."
label: Notes
content: Four narrow lengths of tapa, none of which appear to connect to each other. Total length of the four strips: 260 cm. Three of the lengths are decorated with circles of six dots around a central dot. The fourth length is decorated with six dots in a pyramid shape. The dots are dark brown and the colors all appear to have run, intentionally or otherwise. The water mark in all is a diamond shape with a dot in the center. The long edges all appear to have been cut. The two long pieces each have one finished end.
label: Notes
content: Four strips of light tan barkcloth. All have triangular watermarks. Three are marked or stamped with repeat dotted circular designs, and one has dotted triangle designs. It is possible that one may actually be E3654, or that they may relate to E3487?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Jul 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3488-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca 35.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13 cm