Curio

State Library of New South Wales
A collection of specimens of bark cloth as collected in the different voyages of Capt. Cook to the South Sea, c. 1787

A collection of specimens of bark cloth as collected in the different voyages of Capt. Cook to the South Sea, c. 1787

Bound volume with hand written title, 50 tapa cloth specimens and samples of feathers, human hair and twine David Scott Mitchell bequest, 1907 C523 (Safe 1 / 240)

Hand written in ink

By Avryl Whitnall, 2014

'A curious and singular striped and velvetty appearance on bark cloth from Otaheite' is hand written in ink below the tapa sample.