barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc1910,-.257
- Description
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Decorated barkcloth.
- Production date
- 1800-1825 (Early 1800s)
- Dimensions
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Length: 318 centimetres
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Width: 221 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Christy collection register description, written in 1910:
'Bark cloth, large sheet border of parallel lines chequered & crossbars. Centre divided into panels by broad black lines with human arms at intervals filling of "leaf" patterns.
87" x 125"
- 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
- 1910
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1910,-.257
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1910C3.257 (old CDMS no.)