barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc1856,0709.14.a-c
- Description
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Decorated barkcloth, skirt. Previously in three separate parts (a, b, c).
- Dimensions
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Length: 118 centimetres (a)
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Length: 110 centimetres (b)
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Length: 112 centimetres (c)
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Width: 50 centimetres (a)
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Width: 48 centimetres (b)
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Width: 69 centimetres (c)
- Curator's comments
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Description in Extracts from the British and Medieval Register 1757-1878, p.203:
Piece of native cloth or "Masi" elaborately ornamented on one side with black and brown lines in compartments. The other side chocolate, on one edge is a fringe. Length 5 feet 2.5 inches. W. with fringe 4 feet. Fiji Islands.
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Three parts were sewn together for the 2015 exhibition Shifting patterns: Pacific barkcloth clothing.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2015 5 Feb-6 Dec, London, BM, G91, Shifting patterns: Pacific barkcloth clothing
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Acquisition notes
- 'Presented by Sir John Liddell, Admiralty in the name of Lords of the Admiralty (all collected by the Officers of H.M. Ship Herald).'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1856,0709.14.a-c
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1856E6.53
