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1911.54.5.1

Barkcloth. It is light brown in colour, one side has been painted in black. The decoration is two rows running along the cloth with bands of geometric designs along them. [AB [OPS Move] 17/7/2017]

1911.54.5.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Barkcloth. It is light brown in colour, one side has been painted in black. The decoration is two rows running along the cloth with bands of geometric designs along them. [AB [OPS Move] 17/7/2017]
Geographical reference
Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands
Santa Cruz Group
Person
Field collector Frederick Henry Drew
Field collector Melanesian Mission
PRM source Frederick Henry Drew
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1911
Date collected
By 1911
Acquisition information
Purchased: 02/1911
Materials and processes
Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Beaten, Process Painted
Dimensions
Length: max 2160 mm, Width: max 415 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1911.54.5.1
Research and responses

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]

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. See page 54. [JC 3 10 1996]

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