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, made of three lengths of cloth stitched together and with patterning on one side and patches of similar barkcloth carefully stitched in. The major designs in the centre consist of nine vertical rows of thick, dark V's, separated by vertical lines. This is wholly framed by straight lines forming concentric rectangles, within which diagonal lines are drawn and spots are made.'
Event Date 3/11/2004
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Large dark brown piece of barkcloth, made of three lengths of cloth stitched together. Decorated with a central panel of chevrons enclosed in a grid bordered with dots and diagonal lines. Several small square patches sewn in.
Event Date 28/11/2022
Author: Lily Stancliffe