Tapa cloth - Specimen details

Tapa cloth - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 42960

Plant Name 153.05 MORACEAE Broussonetia sp. Entry Book Number 91a.1858
Artefact Name Tapa cloth Vernacular Name
Iso Country Pitcairn TDWG Region Pitcairn
Parts Held Tapa cloth Geography Description Pitcairn Island
Uses Tapa clothUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Fibres
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Heywood Mrs Donor No
Donor Date 27/07/1858 Donor Notes x0Dx0A
Collector Jenken Jones Captain (HMS Curacoa) Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date 00/00/1842
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Made by Mrs Christian and Mrs Young - the only survivors of the original settlers of the Bounty.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AItem loaned to Glasgow University for research and conservation as part of the 'Situating Pacific barkcloth production in time and place' pr, oject (Collaboration between RBG Kew, University of Glasgow & Smithsonian. Arts & Humanities Research Council funded) Dec 2016- 2018 www.tapa.gla.ac.uk

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