086 Girls washing barkcloth

Item

Title

086 Girls washing barkcloth

Description

By the 1970s, traded cotton cloth and clothing had almost entirely replaced barkcloth garments, but some people still remembered how to make barkcloth by pounding the inner bark of certain tree species into a soft felt. Cloth made from the bark of the dart poison tree (Antiaris toxicaria) was favored because it is pure white. Here two girls, following instructions from their parents, demonstrate how to pound and wash the soft inner bark of the tree to remove the poisonous latex and particles of wood.

Creator

Endicott, Kirk M.

Date

1976

Format

JPG

Identifier

https://commons.keene.edu/s/KSCArchive/item/12874

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Type

Stillimage

Provenance

Keene State College

Item sets

Kirk Endicott Collection

Site pages

Kirk & Karen Endicott Collection

Media

86.jpg