barkcloth;
loin-cloth
- Museum number
- Oc.4804
- Description
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Man's dancing cloth made of decorated barkcloth. Striped in broad longitudinal bars of pale yellow, black and red respectively. Pale yellow is the ground colour. Two of the black bars and the five red ones consist each of 13 parallel narrow zigzag longitudinal lines which have been formed by repeating single impressions of a printer bearing 13 chevrons. Border at one end consisting of single impressions at intervals, alternately red and black. Other black bars have been made with a different patterned printer bearing a bar bordered on one side with four chevrons, the pattern being repeated in the same manner.
- Production date
- 1800-1825 (early 1880's)
- Dimensions
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Length: 228 centimetres
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Width: 85 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment on registration slip:
'Man's dancing maro'. (W.T. Brigham)
'A good piece to describe the use of the printer with?'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015 5 Feb-6 Dec, London, BM, G91, Shifting patterns: Pacific barkcloth clothing
- Acquisition date
- 1860-1869
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.4804
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc186?C1.4804 (old CDMS no.)