IDNO

D.99443.VH

Description

Documentation colour plate of a Fijian barkcloth, previous accessioned as Object Z 4161. [JD 4/11/2011]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji; United Kingdom; England; Cambridge; Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Date

pre 1885

Collection Name

von Hügel Collection

Source

von Hügel, Anatole (Baron)

Format

None

Primary Documentation

Other Information

D.99419.VH to P.99445.VH were formerly kept in paper archive envelope VH1/10/4; Box 77. The prints have now been transferred to the photo archive. The iamges were bound together between card now numbered C533/1/.

CUMAA Exhibition: DCF textile project display case, Pacific barkcloth display, October 2004-January 2005. Returned to storage. [WV 18/1/2005]

Source: In the 'Museum of General and Local Archaeology. First Annual Report of the Antiquarian Committee to the Senate, November 20, 1885' is the following entry on p.7: "56. Chromo-photo-lithographs of twenty-nine patterns of Fijian bark-cloth (framed). The Curator." [JD 02/10/2020]

Related Object: The barkcloth represented on this drawing is similar but not identical to MAA Z 3866 - the actual object is missing the borders visible on the drawing (Lucie Carreau 16/3/2013)

This print has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [A. Nadin, 19/8/2003]