Summary
FROM EXETER'S ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM JOHN Gould Veitch was the grandson of the founder of Exeter's botanical Veitch family and the only member of the family to collect extensively.
He first went to Japan and China in 1860 and in 1865 obtained a passage on the voyage of the HMS Curacoa in the company of Julius Brenchley, a keen traveller and collector. He brought back this long piece of cloth. It is made from the inner bark of a paper mulberry tree and comes from Viti Levu in Fiji.See the full content of this document
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Island Cloth Appealed to Collectors
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