Bark Cloth
2003-32-308
From: Tahiti | Wallis and Futuna (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-308 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Tahiti | Wallis and Futuna (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Bark Cloth | Pigment |
| Inscription Language | French Language |
| Description | Heavy bark cloth with intricate, geometric patterns in black. Thick fringe. The reverse is dyed reddish brown. Made of Banyan bark (Ficus prolixa). Exhibited at l'Exposition universerlle de Paris 1900. |
| Width | 132 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16466 - Other Number | 12203 - Other Number |
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