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1886.1.1202

Barkcloth, plain brown colour. The cloth has two straight sides. Pieces have been cut off two of the edges. Cloth is fine, with distinct beater marks. [AF [OPS move] 17/8/2017]

1886.1.1202

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Collection type
Object
Description
Barkcloth, plain brown colour. The cloth has two straight sides. Pieces have been cut off two of the edges. Cloth is fine, with distinct beater marks. [AF [OPS move] 17/8/2017]
Date / Period
Date made: On or before 1828
Date collected
1825 - 1828
Acquisition information
Transferred: 13/02/1886
Materials and processes
Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Process Beaten
Dimensions
Length: max 1940 mm, Width: max 1720 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.1202 Other numbers: 1122 267 - 303
Research and responses

This object does not appear in the list of Beechey objects in Collectors Miscellaneous XI 71 - 75 [AP 20/7/99]

Please note that there was no further information about Beechey on the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities. [L.Ph 23/3/2004]

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