Tapa Cloth from bark - Specimen details

Tapa Cloth from bark - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 42955

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Plant Name 153.05 MORACEAE Broussonetia papyrifera Entry Book Number 91a.1858
Artefact Name Tapa Cloth from bark Vernacular Name
Iso Country Pitcairn TDWG Region Pitcairn
Parts Held Tapa Cloth from bark Geography Description Pitcairn Island
Uses Tapa Cloth from barkUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Fibres
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Donor Stewart Peggy Donor No
Donor Date 27/07/1858 Donor Notes x0Dx0A
Collector Marshall Lieut RN Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Made by Peggy Stewart, daughter of Stewart, one of the mutineers of the Bounty, and given by her to Lieut Marshall RN, when he visited Pitcairn Island. Presented by Mrs Heywoodx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AItem loaned to Glasgow University for research and conservat, ion 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.ukx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AHoused in same box a, s 42960

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