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View full screenTiputa or poncho made from barkcloth (tapa) with one side decorated with red lines and patterns: Pitcairn Island, Polynesia, 19th century, pre-1826
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Pitcairn Island, Pitcairn Islands, Polynesia
19th century
Long, rectangular barkcloth, whole, thick and weighty and made up of four layers with fibrous surfaces and beater marks, with decoration on one side consisting of appliquéd pieces of barkcloth in cream-white, yellow and reddish-brown and a pattern of narrow elliptical marks, with ink lettering on the underside which reads ‘Pitcairn's Island. | T. Neilson. [written ink] | No. 1 [written in pencil]’.
Pitcairn Island, Pitcairn Islands, Polynesia
Neilson, Thomas, 1825 - 1828 (fl.)
Beechey Expedition
Beechey, Frederick William, Captain, 1796 - 1856
Beechey Expedition
Beechey, F W 1831. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait: To Cooperate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty’s Ship Blossom, Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N. in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28. London: Richard Bentley.