Rectangular, long strip of barkcloth with painted decoration. The textile is a man's loincloth. The decoration consists of repeat rectangular patterns in brown and dark grey pigment on a cream ground. Each of these has a triangle at its centre. This is surrounded on 3 sides by a brown band. The remaining smaller areas are filled with short bands or other patterns. 2 contain a diamond-shape turned by 45 degrees. Both shorter ends are left plain.
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