Bark cloth armlet made from a coarse cloth of fig or breadfruit bark reinforced across its narrowest point with a small wooden splint and ornamented with six tassels of split leaf fibres at the corner and middle of the long edges. The outer face has a pattern outlined in appliquéd split cane which is in filled with dark brown and red paints on a white background.
armlet (arm ornament)
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