waist-cloth; barkcloth

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Object Type: waist-cloth; barkcloth
Museum number: Oc,+.3825
Description: Waist-cloth of barkcloth with designs in brown and black on one side.
Production date: 19thC (before 888)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Owen Stanley Range
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 79 centimetres (card mount included); Length: 80 centimetres; Width: 54 centimetres (card mount included); Width: 44.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: Register slip comment: Doubled over a string and worn round the waist at the back. Interior [/] of Owen Stanley Range
Bibliographic references: Cranstone 1961 / Melanesia: A Short Ethnography (p.54, fig.a, pl.15); Bolton et al 2013 / Melanesia: Art and encounter (p.xii, fig.2)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Oc,+.3825
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Oc1888C2.3825 (old CDMS no.); Miscellaneous number: OC1888E6.15

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