Description (Physical description)
Catalogue cards 1 and 2 for Z 16000 A-C: '3 pieces of bark-cloth (kyen kyen). Early piece labelled "kuman"'
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 3 for Z 16000 A-C: '3 pieces of barkcloth (kyen kyen)'
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Production / use)
Catalogue card 3 for Z 16000 A-C notes: 'made from stripping and beating the underbark of a tree of the ficus family. Used originally for dress. In the c19th, it was said the Asante here dressed in kyenkyen at a stage in the annual Odwira Festival. Also used for covering the tops of rooms to form a sort of ceiling.'
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Other owners)
Catalogue card 3 reads: 'Two pieces [B-C] may be R.P. Wild Coll. (circa 1928) and one [A] Fortes (?1945)
Event Date 1928
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Very coarse, undyed, possibly unfinished, piece of barkcloth. In poor condition and very dirty.
Event Date 4/11/2004
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Kyen Kyen. Roughly rectangular coarse barkcloth. Brown in colour, un-dyed with gaps across the surface.
Event Date 12/4/2022
Author: Louise Puckett