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1966.1.1203

Barkcloth. It is white in colour with fringed edges. There is some discolouration in places. [AB [OPS move] 16/8/2017]

1966.1.1203

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Collection type
Object
Description
Barkcloth. It is white in colour with fringed edges. There is some discolouration in places. [AB [OPS move] 16/8/2017]
Geographical reference
Fiji
Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1864
Date collected
?21 May 1864
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1966
Materials and processes
Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Process Beaten
Dimensions
Width: max 640 mm excluding fringe, approx, Length: max 4110 mm approx
Object numbers
Accession number: 1966.1.1203 Other numbers: ?1
Research and responses

Information from Nicholas Waller, Goteborg Museum of Ethnography 'I called up the Gothenburg City Museum archive and the information they had wasn't much. They had a Julius Bernard Lindström, born 1825 who was a wholesale dealer, but he worked mostly in Sweden. If it is so that your "D" is a "B" then, maybe we've got the right guy. I suppose the fact that you only have the one object and we don't have any would be that he at least wasn't a collector by profession or hobby' [AP 9/4/2003]

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