Bark Cloth Item Number: 3643/11 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Red-brown, rectangular bark cloth with black designs painted across front. Design consists of large concentric diamond inside a central rectangle, with a wide band border; plain "V" shapes extend from left and right points of diamond, touching left and right edges of rectangle. Diamond and "V"'s have created three triangular sections on either side of diamond; all are filled with different patterns. Designs consist of rows of triangles and horseshoe-shapes; back of bark cloth is undecorated.

Narrative

Acquired by the donor when they lived in Tanzania and Uganda in the 1960s.