- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Barkcloth. It is cream in colour and painted with stripes in red and yellow. [AB [OPS Move] 19/7/2017]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1921?, uncertain
- Date collected
- Probably 1921
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1924
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Beaten, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1830 mm, Width: max 270 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1924.51.151
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