barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc.7636.a-b
- Description
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Barkcloth with blue painted design, in two pieces
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1872)
- Dimensions
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Length: 199 centimetres (a)
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Length: 53 centimetres (b)
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Width: 62 centimetres (a at one end)
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Width: 65 centimetres (b at opposite end)
- Curator's comments
- Registration slip reads:
Obtained by the donor at Cockatoo Anchorage, Isabel Island. (Cockatoo Anchorage is in the Bugotu district at the east end of Isabel).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Acquisition notes
- Registration slip reads: Presd. by C. F. Wood, Esq Feb. 16. 1872.
Charles. F. Wood donated artefacts to the British Museum in 1872, 1874 and 1875, which he seems to have collected on voyages in the Pacific islands from the late 1860s. He documented his 1873 voyage in his book 'A Yachting Cruise in the South Seas' (1875).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.7636.a-b
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1872C1.7636 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1872C0217.9