Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for Z 16879 [A-G]: 'Seven pieces of barkcloth'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Piece of barkcloth.

Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'The Proper Study of Mankind: Great Anthropological Collections in Cambridge' (known at MAA as the 'Centenary Exhibition') at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 12 March - 06 May 1984.
Event Date 12/3/1984
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
M. Backhouse: 'Large dark brown piece with patterning on one side. The major designs in the centre consist of a background of small spots in concentric circles, fairly regularly applied, and a prominent motif of four vertical columns of six pointed stars with circles and spots at their centre. This is wholly framed by straight lines forming concentric rectangles, within which diagonal lines are drawn.'
Event Date 3/11/2004
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Large, rectangular, dark reddish-brown piece of barkcloth with black geometric patterning on one side. The major designs in the centre consist of a background of small dots in concentric circles, fairly regularly applied, and a motif of four vertical columns of six pointed stars with circles and spots at their centre. This is wholly framed by straight lines forming concentric rectangles, within which dots and diagonal lines are drawn.
Event Date 6/12/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad