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Bark cloth

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Bark cloth

Artist: MARY J. PRITCHARD
Date: undated, c. 1980
Medium: bark of paper mulberry
Classification: Materials
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Perry in Memory of Parker Perry
Object number: 1994.20.1
Description(Siapo mamanu) Painted design in colors of black, three shades of red/ brown, golden yellow on natural white background. Black outline on all four sides, double border of small triangles with wavy lines, and leaf forms (banana clusters.) Central panel of four fan-shaped corners and large divided circle. Center leaves represent breadfruit leaves. Bark cloth made in four layers and stiffened. Straight, folded edge. Signed with "MJP" in one corner.
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