Tapa cloth - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 42959 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 153.05 MORACEAE Broussonetia papyrifera | Entry Book Number | 104.1876 | |
| Artefact Name | Tapa cloth | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Tapa cloth | Geography Description | Pacific | ||
| Uses | Tapa clothUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Robinson Lady | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/08/1876 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Opuscular source: Lady Robinson (19 Downdes Square, Sydney) - The tapa is a great curiosity - the piece was made with letters stamped on it. I gave a tea party to the children of the Southern Isle and one of them presented me with it. Mr Selwyn told mei, t was really worth having. Dyed and stamped with letters. Label source: The first piece ever made in the Pacific with lettersx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AItem loaned to Glasgow University for research and conservation as part of the 'Situating Pacific barkcloth production in tim, e and place' project (Collaboration between RBG Kew, University of Glasgow & Smithsonian. Arts & Humanities Research Council funded) Dec 2016- 2018 www.tapa.gla.ac.uk | ||||