Tapa or Mossee cloth - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 42876 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 153.05 MORACEAE Broussonetia sp. | Entry Book Number | 83:1855 | |
| Artefact Name | Tapa or Mossee cloth | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Fiji | TDWG Region | Fiji | ||
| Parts Held | Tapa or Mossee cloth | Geography Description | Island of Angau, Fiji Islands | ||
| Uses | Tapa or Mossee clothUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | William Milne, HMS Herald | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 02/08/1855 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | William Milne | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Entry Book: 4th stage of native cloth (a good specimen). Dyed or printed.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AItem loaned to Glasgow University for research and conservation as part of the 'Situating Pacific barkcloth production in time and place' project (Collaboration between RBG Kew,, University of Glasgow & Smithsonian. Arts & Humanities Research Council funded) Dec 2016- 2018 www.tapa.gla.ac.uk | ||||