Bark cloth; rectangular; geometric design in brown and black lines and dots.
Collection place:
Northern Province, Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
Verbatim coll. place:
New Guinea; Eastern Highlands; Dunatina Valley attr.
Culture or time period:
Melanesian
Collection date:
1959
Materials:
Tapa (bark cloth)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Department:
Oceania
Comment:
According to John Barker (pers. comm., 2018), "11-41925 is from Oro Province, not the Eastern Highlands. It might be Maisin, but tapa was made by many coastal folks and this design seems a bit crude compared to most I've seen from Collingwood Bay.