garment;
barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc.9954.a
- Description
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Outer garment, tiputa, made of barkcloth (paper mulberry), with diamond pattern in black.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1876)
- Dimensions
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Length: 177 centimetres (for object on Christy slip)
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Length: 252 centimetres (for two-layered tiputa)
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Width: 98 centimetres (for object on Christy slip)
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Width: 169 centimetres (for two-layered tiputa)
- Curator's comments
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One of two separate items numbered Christy 9954. (Other is hand club from Fiji).
Register slip comment:
This is the "tartan" of a clan, which no other may wear under pain of death.
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Ficus prolixa (Pacific banyan) identified by museum scientist Caroline Cartwright in October 2014.
- 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
- 1876
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.9954.a
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1876C1.19954 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1876C1118.7
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1876E6.63