textile; barkcloth; tapa

Rectangular barkcloth made from 2 pieces. The textile appears to be from a larger cream cloth, as the painted sections appear to have been cut off. The panel consists mainly of a lattice pattern. Toward the shorter side of the cloth are 3 stripes. 2 consist of smaller brown bands, separated by a stripe of small brown triangles. This pattern is repeated in 4 of the 9 borders. 4 borders are decorated with a grid, containing zigzag patterns. The outermost border consists of a painted brown band. This is borderd on 2 sides by a large undecorated section.

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