- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Barkcloth. It is pale in colour and undecorated with natural holes in the fibre. [AF [OPS move] 21/7/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Yabem
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1937
- Date collected
- By 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1937
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Process Beaten
- Dimensions
- Width: max 230 mm, Length: max 1450 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.36.904 Other numbers: Blackwood ii 847
Search terms: Barkcloth
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