086 Girls washing barkcloth

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