- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Barkcloth band and girdle. Cloth is pale brown in colour with painted decoration of abstract face at one end in black, red and white pigment. This end is pointed with plaited plant fibre around a section. [AF [OPS move] 24/7/2017]
- 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 275 mm, Length: max 2450 mm approx
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.36.1685 Other numbers: Blackwood ii 1627 No 17
Search terms: Barkcloth, Ornament, Clothing, Groin-cover, Waist Cloth, Waist Ornament
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