- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Barkcloth.
- Long description
- Piece of barkcloth. The barkcloth is decorated with four broad bands of brown each approximately 540 mm wide. These bands are decorated with sparse triangle designs and dark brown circles approximately 44 mm in diameter. The four bands are interspersed with narrower bands which are heavily decorated with dark brown geometric designs on a lighter coloured brown background. At the two narrow ends of the cloth there is a section of lighter cloth divided into five sections. Each of these section contains a trefoil or leaf design in brown. Seven of the ten sections contain a number and one contains an inscription 'SUSIANA'. Beyond the trefoil section at both ends is a band of floral and leaf designs set in kite-shaped outlines. Beyond this band at both ends is a band of inscriptions approximately 70 mm wide. [MdeA 5/5/2006]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
- PRM source Barbara Harriss-White
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1977
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 21/10/2005
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Beaten, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Width: max 2340 mm, Length: max 3910 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2006.68.3
Search terms: Barkcloth
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