Length of decorated barkcloth. The cloth is pale in colour and painted with red and black pigment in an abstract vine? pattern. It tapers to one end. [AF [OPS move] 24/7/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Length of decorated barkcloth. The cloth is pale in colour and painted with red and black pigment in an abstract vine? pattern. It tapers to one end. [AF [OPS move] 24/7/2017]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; New Britain Bismarck Archipelago South-west Coast Kandrian (Moewehafen) Mibolok Village
Cultural groups: Arawe
Person: Field collector Beatrice Mary Blackwood; PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood
Date / Period: Date made: Before 08/1937
Date collected: 17 June 1937
Acquisition information: Donated: 1938
Materials and processes: Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Beaten, Process Painted
Dimensions: Width: max 430 mm, Length: max 2750 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.36.1228 Other numbers: Blackwood ii 1160 No. 15
Research and responses: Short part of collector's cine film shows barkcloth being made and decorated. [CK 04 06 1997]
Note: Mibolok village is the name used by the collector. This village may have moved, may no longer exist or the name could have subsequently changed. [CK 05 09 1997]