barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc.8617
- Description
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Sample of decorated tapa (barkcloth); with a piece separated from main body. Faint pattern of stripes varying in width, gey and pink, on a white background.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 79 centimetres (separated piece [card mount included])
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Length: 62 centimetres (separated piece)
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Width: 54 centimetres (separated piece [card mount included])
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Width: 41.50 centimetres (separated piece)
- Curator's comments
- See CCAcquisitions 1872 - note:
'By exchange with Berlin - Piece of [thin?] striped tapa brought from the Sandwich Is. by the ship Princess Louisa'.
The reference to the ship Princess Louisa may refer to the Prussian ship of that name that visited the Sandwich islands in the early 1830s.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Acquisition notes
- Received in exchange from Berlin Museum Sept. 16 1872
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.8617
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1872C1.8617 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: 16 (possibly a former display number?)
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Miscellaneous number: no 149
