Bark Cloth

50-21-45

From: Samoa Islands

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 50-21-45
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Samoa Islands
Section Oceanian
Materials Bark Cloth | Pigment
Description

Chiefly twofold. Decoration in dark and light brown: principal unit - a rectangle divided into eight triangles, each built up of rectangles (also triangles) disposed obliquely; in the middle of each rectangle, a solid dark-brown circle. Large piece, double about a rope; evidently a hanging.

Length 466 cm
Width 390 cm
Credit Line Gift of Charles J. Moore, 1950
Other Number L-9-45 - Other Number | CG2000-3-28 - Found in Collection Number | R20, 18, 19 - Other Number

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