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(a) A specimen of paper mulberry bark (pakoko) which has been prepared for pounding into sheets of paper and (b) this specimen shows the bark after many hours of beating, from the book Primitive Papermaking in Mexico and the Pacific Islands
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Date:
1927
Location:
Not on display
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Dimensions:
Object: 95 x 191 mm (3 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.) (b)(irregular); Object: 48 x 165 mm (1 7/8 x 6 1/2 in.) (a)
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North America
Accession Number:
2008.74.20a-b
Acquisition Date:
2008-12-31
Credit Line:
Gift of Richard and Stephanie Rogers in honor of Barbara S. Rogers
making and decorating of bark paper in Mexico and the Pacific Islands thirty-two paper samples (tapa) and nine photographs
Contemporaneous Works “Art from the same century and country”
No contemporaneous works available.