Bark Cloth
2003-32-284
From: Society Islands | Tahiti
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-284 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Society Islands | Tahiti |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Bark Cloth |
| Description | Heavy, brown bark cloth with parallel beater marks. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. According to tag, "Tahiti 12159/étoffe indigene/mûrier à papier [indigenous cloth/paper mulberry].” According to sticker, “étoffe en écorce d’arbre à pain Artocarpus incisa [bark cloth of breadfruit tree (Artocarpus incisa)].” |
| Length | 173 cm |
| Width | 162 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16478 - Other Number | 12159 - Other Number |
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