Tapa Samples
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1829
name: label: Collector
content: Dr F. Wessels
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ORIG. LABEL PASTED ON: "PRESENTED BY F. WESSELS, U.S. NAVY." THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41. MR. EMORY ALSO TOOK A VERY SMALL SAMPLE."
label: Notes
content: From Card: "NO. 3652 IS SHOWN ON EACH OF 3 SMALL PIECES OF TAPA WHICH ARE FASTENED TOGETHER. THE MIDDLE ONE BEARS PASTED LABEL "NATIVE CLOTH. SANDWICH IS. PRESENTED BY F. WESSELS. U.S. NAVY. AUGT. 1830." THE BOTTOM ONE HAS A SIMILAR LABEL "NATIVE CLOTH. SOC. IS. PRESENTED BY DR. F. WESSELS. U.S.N. AUGT. 1830." ADDED TO BOTH IN PENCIL IN ANOTHER HAND IS "COLUMB. INSTITUTE." THE THIRD ONE MUST THEREFORE BE FROM HAWAII. THE DATE 1830 IS EIGHT YEARS PRIOR TO THE U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION."
label: Notes
content: E3652-0 consists of 2 small pieces (with different patterns) tied together.
label: Notes
content: This object was not collected by the U.S. Exploring Expedition. The catalogue card is in error. The Anthropology ledger book identifies the collector as "Dr. F. Wessels." See Anthropology ledger book for Catalogue No. E5740, which is also from Wessels, but where the ledger book entry also lists "National Institute." This may be part of either National Institute Accession No. 81 or 135. See also remarks for E2126.
label: Notes
content: Top layer no watermarks; yellow (possibly dyed?), and then marked with red (ocher?) and black designs hand applied with a liner.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Mar 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E3652-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth