Bark cloth
Made from the inner bark of a species of fig tree (Ficus natalensis) with pattern in black produced from lake mud. Bark cloth was used as bedding, for ceremonial costume, in decorating the king’s palace and as a funeral shroud.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 35/1929
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Collection Area Region
- CENT
- Material
- Natal fig tree inner barklake mud
- Common Name
- bark cloth
- Simple Name
- bark cloth
- Production Country
- Uganda
