bark cloth
- any cloth, as tapa, made by soaking and pounding the inner bark of certain trees.
- fabric woven to resemble such cloth, used for upholstery, bedcovers, etc.
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Yesterday we were met by a party of the same occupation, laden with bark-cloth, which they had just been stripping off the trees.
I interrogated him over and over as to the bark-cloth that he said these people wore.
The Manbos of MindanoJohn M. Garvan
Bark-cloth is made in most islands, but a loom for weaving leaf strips is now found only in Santa Cruz.
Man, Past and PresentAgustus Henry Keane
Another piece of bark-cloth is passed between the legs and tied, in front and behind, to this belt.
My Friends the SavagesGiovanni Battista Cerruti
Clothing is entirely vegetable, and the Malay sarong is found throughout the east; bark-cloth in the south-east and west.
Man, Past and PresentAgustus Henry Keane
bark cloth
- a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia
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