Important and Rare Collection of Decorated Barkcloth, Hawaiian Islands
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Important and Rare Collection of Decorated Barkcloth, Hawaiian Islands
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Inner bark of the mulberry plant, pigment

Provenance:
Private Collection, Germany

Consisting of 136 (58 large and 78 small) fragments in a variety of patterns, designs and motifs, professionally enclosed in an elegantly designed and constructed notebook and box cover.
Sold for US$ 25,000 inc. premium

Category: Ethnographic Art / African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art


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Specialist - African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art