barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc1980,Q.1031
- Description
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Barkcloth sample, coarse and yellow with leaf-shaped random patterns in rust-coloured pigment.
- Dimensions
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Length: 172 centimetres (approx)
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Width: 102 centimetres (approx)
- Curator's comments
- old handwritten label:
Tapa cloth.
Broufsonitia papyrifera. Sandwich Islands
"C.C. [Christy collection] from Kew"
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Date of acquisition unknown - probably 19th century
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1980,Q.1031