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Bark Cloth

Object Number:2003-32-297
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: Society Islands
Tahiti (uncertain)
Section:Oceanian
Materials:Bark Cloth
Length: 109 cm
Width: 101 cm
Credit Line:Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number:1994.X.11399 - Other Number
CIVIC1994.X.11399 - Other Number

Description

Plain, white bark cloth with a gauzy texture. Exhibited at l'exposition universelle de Paris 1900.

Bibliography:

[Book] Kooijman, Simon. 1972. Tapa in Polynesia.. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Vol. Bulletin 234. General ReferenceView Objects related to this General Reference

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