Tapa Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Jan 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 1890
name: label: Collector
content: Benjamin W. Wells Jr.
label: Donor Name
content: Carol Clark
notes: label: Notes
content: Rectangular sheet of barkcloth. Natural light brown color background, painted with reddish brown and dark brown lines. Divided into a 3 x 3 grid, with different patterns in each section -- lines radiating from a circle, checkerboard, and diamonds. Many damaged areas, especially along the edges, some of them repaired with paper backing (see condition report). Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator of Oceania Ethnology, says that "although the designs on this tapa are also found on Samoan tapa, they are more characteristic of Niue."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pago Pago (collected here), American Samoa (collected here), United States / Niue Island (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Niuean (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2074804
label: USNM Number
content: E434501-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 179 cm
label: Width
content: 123 cm