Two different stages in making tapa cloth - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 42882 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 153.05 MORACEAE Broussonetia sp. | Entry Book Number | 83:1855 | |
| Artefact Name | Two different stages in making tapa cloth | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Fiji | TDWG Region | Fiji | ||
| Parts Held | Two different stages in making tapa cloth | Geography Description | Fiji Islands | ||
| Uses | Two different stages in making tapa 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: 1st stage of native cloth. The bark is taken from the tree, soaked in water for a short time, and then slightly beaten out. When a portion is thus prepared they go on with the 2nd stage, which makes head pieces for the chiefs. The native name, of the cloth is 'Mossee', it is all made by women, and will not stand washing or rain.x0Dx0A2nd stage of native cloth which they call head pieces for the chiefs; not for common men.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0APart of Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016, 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 f, unded) Dec 2016- 2018 www.tapa.gla.ac.uk | ||||