Pillon préhistorique en écorce ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Hautes Terres de l'Est, région de Lufa · ID: 3052685

Description

basalt, base

Bark-cloth beaters, used to create a type of “fabric” for costumes and decorations, were traditionally crafted from either stone or wood. They were long and cylindrical in shape, with the upper half carved with parallel or cross-hatched grooves. Strips of bark from paper mulberry or hibiscus plants were pounded against a flat board or a stone, gradually thinning and stretching the material until it resembled cloth.

Publications

Friede, John et. al., New Guinea Highlands, 2017, p. 235, ill. 11.3.

Remarques

This object is subject to the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Act. Export documents are required for export (subjected to a fee).