barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc1938,1001.80
- Description
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Decorated barkcloth, roughly rectangular, with serrated edges. Design uses plant forms radiating around a circular layout.
- Production date
- 1892 (pre)
- Dimensions
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Length: 218 centimetres
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Width: 203 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Information in register, label 'Mat of TAPA (the inner bark of tree prepared by hammering), stained with TUI-TUI nut. J.K.B. Lister, 1891.'
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See John Pule and Nicholas Thomas, 'Hiapo: Past and Present in Niuean barkcloth', Dunedin, University of Otago Press, 2005, p. 125
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1938
- Acquisition notes
- Register reads, for collection Oc1938,1001 as a whole:
Given by Miss E. K. B. Lister, 11 Western Terrace, Falmouth. / Collected by the donor's father and brother (in whose memory they are given).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1938,1001.80