- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Rectangular piece of barkcloth. It is brown in colour with very dense and course fibres. [AF [OPS move] 18/8/2017]
- Person
- Field collector William Coleman Piercy
- Field collector Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- PRM source William Coleman Piercy
- PRM source Faith Piercy
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1935
- Date collected
- By 1935
- Acquisition information
- Bequeathed: 1935 Acquired: 1939
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Process Beaten
- Dimensions
- Length: max 870 mm, Width: max 670 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1939.3.74
Search terms: Barkcloth
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