barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc.7265
- Description
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Tapa made of breadfruit tree bark. Fibre is white, striped lozengewise with broad yellow bands (from turmeric plant), the white interspaces being variously painted with dark red patterns.
- Curator's comments
- Christy collection registration slip description, written in 1871?:
Tahiti
"Made from the bark of the Bread fruit - the red colour is obtained from ... the yellow from the turmeric plant".
All in Solander Case VII
[Added in different handwriting] Probably Tonga. See Eth.Doc. 1132. B.A.L.C [Bryan Cranstone] 31/1/66
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.7265
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1871C1.7265 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1871C0425.7
