Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [handwritten in black ball point:] 'Z 264 E SOLOMON IS. ?Bougainville Sts. Bark cloth. Dyed blue.' [Red circular sticker top right of catalogue card.]
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ball point:] 'Z 264 a-e MELANESIA SOLOMON ISLANDS Bougainville sts? Eddystone Island). (Only 3 found) ['(Only 3 found)' crossed out in black ball point] 31.7.[19]79[.]
5 Specimens of bark cloth 'Z 264 A'; [museum label attached to card underneath 'Z 264 A' handwritten in faded black ink:] 'Nggoru H p. 432'; [handwritten in black ball point:] 'Z 264 D (Eddystone Islands?)'; [museum label attached to card underneath 'Z 264 D' handwritten in faded black ink:] 'N. Nggoru ['N. Nggoru' crossed out in black ink] Popogha made by Kilu wife of Ndando ['Ndando' crossed out in black ink] Nendo of K. H. p 82.';
[later addition handwritten in pencil:] 'E missing 9/[19]79'; [handwritten in black ball point:] 'Rivers Colln PTO'; [handwritten in black ball point on reverse of card:]
'Z 264 A [red circular sticker] - 2.61m x 0.71m (blue design)
Z 264 D [red circular sticker] - tapering piece 4.12m long
Z 264 B [red circular sticker] - tapering piece (blue fish design) 4.10m long.';
[later addition handwritten in blue ball point:] 'Z 264 C: blue 1.45 x 1.93m';
[later addition handwritten in blue ball point:] 'B. Blue'; [museum label attached to card handwritten in black ink]: '[?]F. Eddystone Island?'; later addition handwritten in blue ball point: 'tied round Z 264 D'.
Catalogue card 3 reads [handwritten in black ball point:] 'Z 264 MELANESIA SOLOMON ISLANDS'; [three black and white photographs of bark cloth attached to front of card].
Event Date 12/12/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Descriptions)
'B: Reuben thought this artist was less able. The design is also about fishing. At the bottom are hills and land (triangles) while horizontal lines inshore show "nets" that lead fish into a V-shaped opening of a stone-walled fish trap. Further horizontal panels show fish and lobsters inshore. Beyond them are the open seas, with two long, outward and inward, "travel lines" with three caught bonito between then and frigate birds ("belama") above them. Other motifs are four open circles or zeros; an oblong, double square, box; one square cross and one dash mark like a letter l. Reuben said he was unsure of the exact meaning of these "symbols," but thought they were probably tally marks to show a total number of bonito caught at different times (or by different men), but these "were not based on set units like tens, but on old quantities, known like knots in a counting string," that is stages reached with uneven intervals. Rhys Richards 8 July 2004. Transcribed by F. Veys 13/9/2004.'
Event Date 12/12/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
B: Tapering piece [?]Blue fish design.
Event Date 12/12/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau