barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc.6619
- Description
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Two pieces of barkcloth, one side coloured with orange pigment.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1870)
- Dimensions
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Length: 109.50 centimetres
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Width: 68 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register slip reads: Solomon Islands. Savage Island
(Savage Island is crossed out in Christy Numerical List).
This must be No. 143 of Brenchley Cat. - "Orange coloured tapa from Savage Island". There was none other of that description in the collection at Maidstone."
Tapa. Rev. H. Welchman 3.6.1902
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection made by Julius Brenchley in 1865 on a cruise of HMS Curacoa around the Pacific, which was divided among Maidstone Museum, the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum and Exeter Museum.
Register slip reads:
Presd. by Julius L. Brenchley Esq 24.3.1870 (M.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.6619
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1870C1.6619 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: 143 (Brenchley catalogue)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1870C0324.51