Cloth
Original Devon & Exeter Institution label reads ‘Otaheite/ Presented by Capt. Bond RN’
Anne D’Alleva, 1994
“Thick, felted, off-white barkcloth. One side with red rubbed pigment on the surface, with a 120mm wide reserved with ruled borders running the length of the cloth. Beater mark 5 grooves/cm. Resembles a type of loincloth worn by initiates to the Arioi Society (see Henry: 1928:236).”
Anne D’Alleva, 1994
“Thick, felted, off-white barkcloth. One side with red rubbed pigment on the surface, with a 120mm wide reserved with ruled borders running the length of the cloth. Beater mark 5 grooves/cm. Resembles a type of loincloth worn by initiates to the Arioi Society (see Henry: 1928:236).”
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- E1767c
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Collection Area Region
- POLYN
- Material
- barkpigment
- Common Name
- cloth
- Simple Name
- barkcloth
- Production County
- Tahiti, Society Islands
- Production Country
- French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
- Production Year High
- 1792
