One of 3 samples of dyed blue barkcloth. The cloth is dense and coarse, with open fibres. It is pale in colour and dyed unevenly with blue. [AF [OPS move] 11/8/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: One of 3 samples of dyed blue barkcloth. The cloth is dense and coarse, with open fibres. It is pale in colour and dyed unevenly with blue. [AF [OPS move] 11/8/2017]
Geographical reference: Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands; New Georgia Ramada Island Nggerasi
Person: Field collector C.E. Munro; PRM source C.E. Munro
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1896
Date collected: By 1896
Acquisition information: Donated: 12/1896, uncertain
Materials and processes: Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Process Beaten
Dimensions: Width: max 690 mm, Length: max 940 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1896.51.3.1
Research and responses: Three found (1896.51.3 .1 .2 and .3). The Museum's collection of barkcloth (including this piece) from the Solomon Islands (including Santa Cruz) was surveyed on 29 April 1996 by Ms Virginia Bond of the Sainsbury Research Unit at the University of East Anglia as part of her work for her MA dissertation. [JC 30 4 1996]
Possibly the source of one of the specimens of barkcloth given by Henry Balfour to William T. Brigham, Director of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum; see record for 1895.22.120. [JC 5 9 2003]
Associated publications: See 'A Study of Bark Cloth from the Solomon Islands with Particular Reference to the Use of Indigo in the North-Western Region' by Virginia Bond (M.A. dissertation; Norwich: Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia, 1996). Copy in Balfour Library. Detail illustrated in Figure 32 on page 114. See also page 52. [JC 3 10 1996]

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