Bark Cloth
2003-33-8
From: Samoa Islands (uncertain) | Fiji Islands (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-33-8 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Samoa Islands (uncertain) | Fiji Islands (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Bark Cloth | Pigment |
| Technique | Beaten | Rubbed | Painted |
| Description | Large bark cloth with rubbed pattern made with upeti design tablets. Very heavy dark brown overpainting concentrated along the center of the piece. Repeating medium brown patterns of different triangles along the edges. |
| Length | 287.02 cm |
| Width | 233.68 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16475 - Other Number | TS SP 50 - Other Number | CIVIC1995.X.16475 - Other Number |
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