Bark Cloth Fragment

Decorated in narrow panels of candlenut and hematite dye, outlined with Bischoffia juice. The panels each contain on the light ground paired crescents, triangles single or in star-like groups of three, and three circles filled in solid with Bischoffia. The other figures outlined with the same. The border contains a notation of the number of panels (23) and the signature of the maker in imperfect capital letters. For the dyes see Kramer, Die Somoa-Inseln, II, pp. 301-306.