- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Piece of bark-cloth. Cloth is pale with curving linear and dotted designs in brown and black. Made up of more than one section, which have been stitched together. [AF [OPS Move] 18/7/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- By 1942
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1936
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Beaten, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Length: max 950 mm, Width: max 370 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.1.213
Search terms: Barkcloth
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