barkcloth

Long, rectangular piece of cream barkcloth with black and brown decoration. The textile has a cut dentate edge at one shorter end, and a shaped fringe at the other. The edges at the longer sides have been cut to create fine fringing. At both short ends is a band consisting of reciprocal dentate pattern created by painted brown and black lattice. The largest part of the cloth is decorated by stripes in five rectangular sections created by thin bands. Each section contains three or four wider stripes painted with black triangles, short bands, squares, triangles or diagonal patterns on the cream ground. They are framed by stripes consistsing of two fine stencilled brown bands decorated with short lines. This stripe is repeated in the overall pattern. Every other section also contains a narrow stripe decorated with fine black diagonals. The arrangement and occurrence of these patterns varies between the different sections.

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