- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Barkcloth band and girdle. Orange/brown in colour with painted decoration at one end in black, red and white. [AF [OPS move] 20/7/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1937
- Date collected
- By 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1938
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Beaten
- Dimensions
- Width: max 260 mm approx, Length: max 2320 mm approx
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.36.1676 Other numbers: Blackwood ii 1618 No. 8
Search terms: Barkcloth, Ornament, Clothing, Groin-cover, Waist Cloth, Waist Ornament
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