Large barkcloth sleeping tent with cords ornamented in brown. [AF [OPS move] 10/8/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Large barkcloth sleeping tent with cords ornamented in brown. [AF [OPS move] 10/8/2017]
Long description: Large barkcloth sleeping tent with cords ornamented in brown. The cloth is pale cream in colour with a fine and loose texture to the fibres. It is divided into sections with lines of dark brown pigment. The background is stained with parallel lines in orange pigment. [AF [OPS move] 10/8/2017]
Geographical reference: Samoa
Oceania > Polynesia > Samoa
Person: Field collector Joseph King; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History; PRM source Department of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1874
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1891, uncertain
Materials and processes: Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Material String, Material Plant Fibre, Process Painted, Process Beaten, Process Stitched, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Width: max 2000 mm, Length: max 3950 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1891.61.25
Research and responses: In the George Rolleston archive (Ashmolean Museum) there is a hand-written list of objects sent by the Rev. Joseph King to the Natural History Museum, dated Aug. 31 1874. A copy of this list is in the RDF together with a copy of a letter sent by Rev. Joseph King to George Rolleston mentioning that he is forwarding a parcel of "curiosities". [AS 13/03/2012]