Mallet For Making Tapa
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Oct 1874
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Major William Rich
label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Prof Spencer F. Baird
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PREVIOUSLY MARKED "SAMOA," NOW IDENTIFIED AS HAWAIIAN. SHR [curator Saul H. Riesenberg] 8/10/61."
label: Notes
content: Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005.
label: Notes
content: From Anthropology Conservation Lab treatment records: Wood; handle is rounded but developes into squared beater or mallet. Three sides of beater head have narrow parallel grooves running along the length. Remaining side has perpendicular and slanted grooves cut across the lengthwide parallel grooves.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Jul 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00057
label: USNM Number
content: E15125-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Barkcloth Beater
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 43 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5 cm