barkcloth
- Museum number
- 2016,Q.61
- Description
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Barkcloth, square, decorated with black and brown grid designs.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early) (before 1935)
- Dimensions
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Length: 250 centimetres (approx)
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Width: 178 centimetres (approx)
- Curator's comments
- A note on BM headed paper (Department of Oriental and Antiquities and of Ethnography, British Museum, London W.C.1) 'Lady Hastings/45 Wellington Rd/St John's Wood/'Primrose Hill'/re. tapas 8/1/35'.
In another hand 'To be stored in cup 24 (d) AW 8/1/35'
Unknown whether this date is 1835 or 1935.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Extremely brittle
- Acquisition date
- 1935 (? possibly 1835)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2016,Q.61
