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1921.29.1

Piece of painted bark cloth.

1921.29.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Piece of painted bark cloth.
Geographical reference
Fiji
Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Sydney Howard Vines
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1921
Date collected
By 1921
Acquisition information
Donated: 1921
Materials and processes
Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Beaten
Dimensions
Length 1890 mm, Width 1140 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1921.29.1
Research and responses

Vines was Balfour's next door neighbour, just about to move in 1921 to Exmouth, see http://www.headington.org.uk/history/pullens_lane/vineyard_pollock.htm [AP 15/03/2007]

Professor SH Vines was a member of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire from 1889 [AP 4/11/2002]

Search terms: Barkcloth

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