- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Barkcloth, brown in colour with red and dark grey stamped design.
- Long description
- Barkcloth, brown in colour with red and dark grey stamped design. The design is of steped lozenges (of two pairs of parallel zigzag lines) in alternating red and dark grey colours. The border is stamped in black pigment.
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1886
- Date collected
- By 1886
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 10/02/1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Material Mulberry Bark Plant, Process Beaten, Process Stamped
- Dimensions
- Length: max 960 mm, Width: max 830 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.1.1229
- Research and responses
This object has not been designated a 'Forster' number.
This barkcloth was once thought to be part of the collection of objects obtained in the South Pacific by the Forsters during James Cook's second voyage and subsequently presented to the University of Oxford (Ashmolean Museum) and transferred to the PRM in 1886. Peter Gathercole examined the object (16/4/97) and stated that there is no clear way to determine whether this piece is "Cook" or not, and therefore should NOT be considered part of the Cook/Forster collection. Peter also confirmed that the cloth is from the Hawaiian Islands (mostly likely from the Bloxam collection). [NM 17/4/97]
Search terms: Barkcloth
