- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Barkcloth: parchment like, painted with black triangles and zigzag designs and red floral lines and palms, with a jagged edge.
- Person
- Field collector William George Lawes
- Field collector London Missionary Society
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1872
- Date collected
- By 1872
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Printed, Process Painted, Process Beaten
- Dimensions
- Width: max 2280 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1887.1.561
- Research and responses
The George Rolleston Archive (Ashmolean Museum) has several letters from W.G. Lawes that were sent to George Rolleston, together with lists of objects sent to the University Museum by Lawes. Copies of these are now in the RDF. [AS 13/03/2012]
- Associated publications
- A Museum photograph of the barkcloth display (not 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 07/11/2002] Illustrated in colour on pages 126-7 of Hiapo: Past and Present in Niuean Barkcloth, by John Pule and Nicholas Thomas (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2005). Caption (page 125, repeated on page 159 with accession number): 'Hiapo, width 228 cm, collected by W. G. Lawes before 1874. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. [JC 14 12 2005]
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