displays marked similarities among island clusters also shows 



enough important differences to preclude unqualified description. 



I was fortunate that, in answering a query about his Tapa in 

 Polynesia, Professor Simon Kooijman of the Rijksmuseum voor 

 Volkenkunde, Leiden, offered to give me his opinion of the 

 provenance of eight undocumented pieces of bark cloth in the 

 Botanical Museum. He used references from his Tapa in Polyne- 

 sia and his Tapa on Move Island, Fiji. I owe a very great debt to 

 Professor Kooijman, who so generously shared his scholarly 

 skills with a stranger. Professor Kooijman examined color slides 

 from photographs taken by Dr. Anna C. Roosevelt of the 

 Museum of the American Indian, New York, and by Scott E. 

 Wilder, Curatorial Assistant in the Botanical Museum, Harvard 

 University. My grateful thanks go to these two photographers. 



I wish to record a special obligation to Richard Evans Schultes, 

 Jeffrey Professor of Biology and Director of the Botanical 

 Museum, Harvard University. I have depended, during many 

 months of research and writing, on his unfailing interest and on 

 his invaluable help in solving botanical problems. 



In the initial stages of my research, I received background 

 information on Pacific cultures from Dr. Monni Adams of the 

 Peabody Museum, Harvard University. For this and for other 

 kindnesses, I thank her sincerely. 



For assistance during the course of my study, I wish to express 

 my gratitude to the following people, from whose experience and 



knowledge I have greatly benefited: 



— to Dr. Paul Tolstoy, for comments on and drawings of tapa 

 beaters similar to the one in the Botanical Museum collection, 

 an example of which I had not succeeded in locating, except for a 

 somewhat similar beater at the Peabody Museum, Harvard Uni- 

 versity; also for a copy of his monograph on cultural parallels in 

 the manufacture of bark cloth that will enrich my resources in 

 completing Part 2 of this study; 



—to Dr. Frances M. Smith of CIBA-Geigy (New Ventures 

 Group) for photocopies of papers by W. Naumann, "Bark 

 Fabrics of the South Seas" in Ciba Reive\\\ No. 33, 1940; and 

 for information on indigo as a possible source of blue dye in 

 Polynesia; 



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