barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc1855,1220.173.a-b
- Description
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Two pieces of white barkcloth.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1855)
- Dimensions
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Length: 37 centimetres
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Length: 47 centimetres
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Width: 33 centimetres
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Width: 37.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Handwritten label with cloth:
'Tappa or Bark cloth
Pitcairn Island made by
the descendants of the mutiny
of the Bounty.
55.12 20 173 [Initials - H.B or N.B?]
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Description from Extracts from the British and Medieval Register 1757-1878, p.184:
173. A piece of white tappa or bark cloth from Picarious [Pitcairn] Id. made by the descendants of the [mutiny] of the Bounty. W.W.B.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Mutiny on HMS Bounty 1789 (Made by descendants of mutineers.)
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty through Sir John Liddell, C.B. (the Museum of Haslar Hospital)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1855,1220.173.a-b
