Bark cloth
Donated to RAMM by the Devon & Exeter Institution. Entry in museum register January 1872 states “13 pieces of tapa cloth. Otaheite. Presented by Captain Bond RN.”
Length = 1235mm x width = 320mm
Anne D’Alleva, 1994
“Brownish-black, stiff, thick barkcloth. Fibrous surface shows no beater mark.”
Length = 1235mm x width = 320mm
Anne D’Alleva, 1994
“Brownish-black, stiff, thick barkcloth. Fibrous surface shows no beater mark.”
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- E1767e
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Collection Area Region
- POLYN
- Material
- barkpigment
- Common Name
- bark cloth
- Simple Name
- barkcloth
- Production County
- Tahiti, Society Islands
- Production Country
- French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
- Production Year High
- 1792
