Bark cloth

Museum number:
11-45512
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Accession number:
Acc.4707
Description:
Large hand painted bark cloth featuring flowers, crowns in roundels with boughs surrounding, geometrics, various symbols and a central path; inscribed with "Kalauni" and "Koekaluni". painting is in light and dark brown.
Donor:
James Putkey
Collection place:
Tonga
Culture or time period:
Tongan
Collector:
James Putkey
Materials:
Paint (coating) and Tapa (bark cloth)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
April 20, 2000
Context of use:
household
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
length 418 centimeters and width 247 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bark cloth, accession number 11-45512, described as Large hand painted bark cloth featuring flowers, crowns in roundels with boughs surrounding, geometrics, various symbols and a central path; inscribed with "Kalauni" and "Koekaluni". painting is in light and dark brown.

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