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Painted barkcloth
Painted canvas of beaten tree bark
Such tree bark cloths are called maro in the Sentani region. Maro is the general name for tree bark and also for the (dance) clothing made from it (Greub 1992, 127). Such tree bark cloths were worn mainly by married women as loincloths (Webb 2011, 57). They were also hung at graves of girls or young women (Wirz 1928, 296).
Type of item
- Object Type: loincloth
- loincloth
- Loincloth
Date
- voor 1950
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
- 1950
Provenance
- 1950-01-01
- Schenking
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/70541
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
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