Barkcloth 'ahu
Place: Tahiti & Society Islands
Category: Barkcloth
Tahiti and the Society Islands, l. 185 cm, w. 84 cm, Hanover 1854, No. 46
Humphrey No. 12: ‘Another [piece of thin bark cloth] of a light red from ditto [Society Isles].’
The thin cloth is of a reddish-beige colour. It is full of holes around the edges in places more so than in others. On one side, a piece in the shape of an acute-angled triangle has been cut away. The cloth features a Humphrey label with the number 12. Gundolf Krüger