Bark Cloth

2003-32-121

From: New Hebrides

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 2003-32-121
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Hebrides
Section Oceanian
Materials Bark Cloth
Description

Bark cloth decorated with a reddish brown grid. Fringe felted to the ends. At felting point, there is a strip of striped bark cloth adjoining the pieces. On one corner, there is a long piece of fringe, and on another, there is a small portion (approximately 1") of striped fringe. According to tag, Society Islands, but likely New Hebrides. See P2678. Similar to CIVIC1995.X.16419. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900.

Width 121 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1995.X.16477 - Other Number | 12196 - Other Number

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