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Bark Cloth

Dress of bark cloth

Dress of bark cloth

Catalogue no:

42905

Botanical classification:

MORACEAE Broussonetia sp.

Donor:

Rev. T. Powell

Donor date:

1866

Geographical origin:

Southwestern Pacific, Samoa

Rev. Powell collected this patterned dress made from the beaten bark of a species of Broussonetia in his travels around the Sandwich Islands . The dress is one of many garments made from bark cloth in the Economic Botany Collections.

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