- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Specimen of brown barkcloth. The specimen is roughly square. [AB [OPS Move] 17/7/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Edward Horace Man
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1884?, uncertain
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884 Found unentered: 08/12/2005
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Process Beaten
- Dimensions
- Width: max 115 mm, Length: max 118 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.859
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