barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc,+.3581.b
- Description
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A piece of brown barkcloth separated and stored separately from the main piece (a).
- Production date
- 19thC (?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 52.50 centimetres (barkcloth sample)
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Length: 79 centimetres (card mount included)
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Length: 351 centimetres (rolled textiles)
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Width: 45 centimetres (barkcloth sample)
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Width: 54 centimetres (card mount included)
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Width: 145 centimetres (rolled textile)
- Curator's comments
- Christy collection registration slip, probably written in 1887:
Hervey Islands
Piece of bark cloth, light brown in colour, the hammer marks at right angles to each other.
Folded up about 10 in x 20 in
[Collector's information?] "From Mauke a small island of this group (= Hervey Group) made from the bark of the breadfruit tree."
11' 10" x 8' 8"
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.3581.b
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1887C2.3581b (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1887E6.61 (Solander case number)