Barkcloth
- Description
- Piece of Marquesan Island barkcloth (hiapo) made from banyan bark depicting a stylised ancestor (tiki). The image relates to tattoo designs. Collected by Jenny Balfour Paul in February 2001.
- Accession Loan No.
- 127/2001/3
- Collection Class
- Textiles and equipment
- Common Name
- barkcloth
- Simple Name
- textile
- Full Name
- barkcloth (hiapo)
- Dimensions
- whole height 340 mm; whole W 207 mm
- Production Year High
- 2001
- Production Town
- Fatu Hiva
- Production County
- Marquesas Islands
- Production Country
- French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
- Production Area Region
- Polynesia
- Production Continent
- Oceania
- Family Group
- Material
- bark cloth (banyan tree)
- Collection Area Region
- POLYN
- Collection Continent
- Pacific
