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View full screenNarrow 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
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Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Polynesia
Early 19th century
Very narrow rectangular section of barkcloth with one cut edge, thin and papery with crisp texture and fine parallel and horizontal beater marks down the length of the cloth, a white-cream in overall colour with decoration down the centre of one side consisting of two narrow panels - one with seven evenly spaced black lines and the other made up of a grid-like pattern resembling a fence or film-strip with a short triangular and rectangular patterned section at one end, with grey and slightly red-brown discolouration in places.
Cuming, Hugh, 1791 - 1865
Cook Islands Art / Dale Idiens. - Shire Ethnography Series, 1990, p. 44