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Tree bark cloth
In Tonga, making and decorating bark cloth is a women's affair. In the past, tree bark cloth was used as clothing, bedding, home decoration and in ritual presentations. Now it is mainly used as a ritual gift and ceremonial clothing. The cloth (5 lengths) is cut from a longer tree bark cloth. It is customary in Tonga, at ceremonies, to give attendees a portion of the cloth offered. \To make tree b…
Type of item
- Object Type: fabric
- fabric fragment
- Textile
Date
- 1970/1979
Medium
- Material: bark
- bark
- Bark
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1970
- 1970/1979
Provenance
- 2016-05-20
- Schenking
Identifier
- 7055-1
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/1031127
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Year
- 1970
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z