Length of barkcloth decorated with abstract line drawings in natural pigments: Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Efe Mbuti people, 20th century

Length of barkcloth decorated with abstract line drawings in natural pigments: Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Efe Mbuti people, 20th century

Man's coat of buff-coloured cloth woven of the inner bark of the mountain elm, ornamented with applied pieces of dark blue cotton cloth: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu

Ami-pu or man's coat of cloth woven of the inner bark of the mountain elm: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu

Man's apron of cloth woven of the inner bark of the mountain elm: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu

Blanket made of bark-cloth worn by the Nagas: Assam, Naga

Piece of barkcloth with brown circles on black ground: Polynesian, Samoa

Robe of barkcloth with four superposed sets of fringes, the whole painted in brown and yellow with horizontal bands and lines: Polynesian, Samoa

Chief's dress or lava-lava of white barkcloth decorated in dark brown with zigzags and small figures: Polynesian, Samoa

Section of barkcloth ('ahu) in two layers, upper layer is black: Polynesian, Society Islands, Polynesia, 18th - early 19th century

Painted barkcloth (ngatu ‘uli), decorated with black triangles and line work triangles, probably collected during the second or third Cook voyage: Polynesia, Tonga, 18th Century

Narrow rectangular section of white-cream barkcloth, decorated down the centre of one side with black lines and a black grid pattern: Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Polynesia, early 19th Century

Hat of trimmed red feathers tied to grass twine and secured to a foundation of barkcloth: Africa: West Africa, North West Cameroon, late 19th century

Hat of trimmed red feathers tied to grass twine and secured to a foundation of barkcloth: Africa: Central Africa, North West Cameroon, late 19th century

Barkcloth cap: Africa, Southern Nigeria, Western State, Yoruba , early 20th century

White barkcloth (masi), possibly used as a curtain or mosquito net: Polynesian, Fiji, mid - late 19th century