Barkcloth
Edited by Margot M. Wright
Paperback (Published)
(September 2001)
ISBN: 9781873132821
6.14 x 9.21 inches
Price: $45.00
In stock
This volume explores the preparation, decoration, deterioration, and conservation of barkcloth (‘tapa’) across diverse cultures. It offers practical insights for conservators working with this unique material, drawing on papers from a 1997 CEA seminar at Torquay Museum.
Barkcloth or ‘tapa’ has a history that spans centuries, countries and a multitude of uses: from ceremonial dress in Papua New Guinea and Tahiti to a low-status substitute for woven cloth in Ghana. Its production has been recorded widely from Pacific and central America, Africa, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Oceania and New Zealand. The chapters of Barkcloth cover the preparation, decoration, and conservation of tapa with particular reference to the material’s deterioration and the various approaches applied to control this process. Wide-ranging, practical and precise, this collection of papers should prove to be of considerable help and inspiration to the conservator of this fascinating material. Papers presented at a one-day seminar organised by the Conservators of Ethnographic Artefacts (CEA) at Torquay Museum in 1997.
Contributors
Foreword
1. African barkcloth, with particular reference to Ghana
Len Pole
2. Condition survey of barkcloth at Exeter City Museums, with particular reference to the African collections
Sherry Doyal
3. Research into the deterioration of barkcloth
V. Daniels
4. Traditional barkcloth from Papua New Guinea: materials, production and conservation
Rowena Hill
5. The research and proposed conservation of the barkcloth elements of a Tahitian chief mourner's costume
Morwena Stephens
6. The deacidification and conservation of a Samoan tapa at the Manchester Museum
Emily Johnson
7. Research, exhibition and preservation of the barkcloth
collections from the Pacific in the Harvard Peabody Museum
T. Rose Holdcraft
8. The conservation and storage of barkcloths at the Manchester Museum
Christine Murray and Emily Johnson
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Contributors
Foreword
1. African barkcloth, with particular reference to Ghana
Len Pole
2. Condition survey of barkcloth at Exeter City Museums, with particular reference to the African collections
Sherry Doyal
3. Research into the deterioration of barkcloth
V. Daniels
4. Traditional barkcloth from Papua New Guinea: materials, production and conservation
Rowena Hill
5. The research and proposed conservation of the barkcloth elements of a Tahitian chief mourner's costume
Morwena Stephens
6. The deacidification and conservation of a Samoan tapa at the Manchester Museum
Emily Johnson
7. Research, exhibition and preservation of the barkcloth
collections from the Pacific in the Harvard Peabody Museum
T. Rose Holdcraft
8. The conservation and storage of barkcloths at the Manchester Museum
Christine Murray and Emily Johnson
- Edited by Margot M. Wright
"...conservators doing technical research on barkcloth or working with collections first-hand will benefit from this book. Even those with only a mild interest in barkcloth will find the publication to be approachable and useful." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 41(3) (2002) 294-296
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...conservators doing technical research on barkcloth or working with collections first-hand will benefit from this book. Even those with only a mild interest in barkcloth will find the publication to be approachable and useful.
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