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1886.1.1208

Barkcloth, light yellow colour and very thin.

1886.1.1208

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Collection type
Object
Description
Barkcloth, light yellow colour and very thin.
Long description
Barkcloth, light yellow colour and very thin. The cloth has a faint watermark of little circles. [MJD 18/06/2013]
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
Width: max 364 mm, Length: max 445 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.1208 Other numbers: 1126 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]

Associated publications
A Museum photograph of the barkcloth display (including this object) has been published as Figure 7 on page 53 of 'Computerizing the Forster (‘Cook’), Arawe, and Founding Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum’, by Jeremy Coote, Chantal Knowles, Nicolette Meister, and Alison Petch, in Pacific Arts, nos. 19/20 (July 1999), pp. 48–80. [ESR 01/11/2002]

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