Barkcloth. It is triangular, it is cream in colour with fern design in brown. One of a pair, for the other see [1886.1.1215 .2] [AB [OPS move] 28/7/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Barkcloth. It is triangular, it is cream in colour with fern design in brown. One of a pair, for the other see [1886.1.1215 .2] [AB [OPS move] 28/7/2017]
Geographical reference: French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
Oceania > Polynesia > French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France); Society Islands Tahiti
Person: Field collector Frederick William Beechey; Field collector HMS Blossom; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 24/04/1826
Date collected: 1825 - 1828
Acquisition information: Transferred: 13/02/1886
Materials and processes: Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Beaten, Process Stamped
Dimensions: Width: max 420 mm, Length: max 786 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.1215.1 Other numbers: 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]
During a research visit on 8/6/2004 Associate Professor of Botany Will C. McClatchey and Al Keali'i Chock, both from the University of Hawaii, identified the fern design as a feature of barkcloths from Tahiti. [ZM 17/6/2004]

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