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1914.56.23

Patterned sheet of barkcloth, printed with brown and black designs - cross hatching, triangles etc with a fringed edge.

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1914.56.23

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Collection type
Object
Description
Patterned sheet of barkcloth, printed with brown and black designs - cross hatching, triangles etc with a fringed edge.
Geographical reference
Fiji
Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji
Taveuni Island Somo-somo
Person
Field collector Arthur Maurice Hocart
PRM source Arthur Maurice Hocart
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1914
Date collected
By 1914
Acquisition information
Donated: 1914
Materials and processes
Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Beaten
Dimensions
Width: max 390 mm, Length: max 4840 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1914.56.23
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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