Bark Cloth

P3308A

From: Eastern Polynesia (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number P3308A
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Eastern Polynesia (uncertain)
Section Oceanian
Materials Bark Cloth
Description

One of two (A, C) similar pieces of plain, white bark cloth. Catalogued as "final stage [of preparation] before painting." Not paper mulberry - possibly breadfruit bark. Probably from Eastern Polynesia: Cooks Societies or Australs. (Rod Ewins).

Length 73 cm
Width 54 cm
Credit Line Gift of Misses Meta C. and Jane C. Biddle, 1914
Other Number CG910904-8282 - Found in Collection Number | R4/9-10 - Other Number

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