Robe

Description

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

Museum reference

A.1897.188.6

Collection

Oceania

Object name

Robe

Production information

Samoa, Samoan Islands, Polynesia

Style / Culture

Pacific Peoples

Materials

Barkcloth

Physical description

Cloth made from bark; painted in brown and yellow with horizontal bands and lines

Associations

Previous owner: Stevenson, Margaret Isabella, nee Balfour, 1829 - 1897
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850 - 1894