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1886.1.1204

Barkcloth. It is brown in colour, there are areas which have faded. It has been folded once. [AB [OPS move] 25/7/2017]

1886.1.1204

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Collection type
Object
Description
Barkcloth. It is brown in colour, there are areas which have faded. It has been folded once. [AB [OPS move] 25/7/2017]
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 1160 mm approx, Width: max 900 mm approx
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.1204 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]

This barkcloth was examined by Adrienne Kaeppler, Smithsonian Institute, on 13-14 June 2013. She noted this barkcloth is not classic Hawaiian. [MJD 18/06/2013]

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