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Handleless rectangular bag woven from plant fibres. The front is decorated with regularly spaced grass fruits and a striped pattern in various shades of brown and grey. The underside is finished with a braided edge. The sides of the bag are slightly frayed.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
bags (generic containers)
Dimensions
General: approx. 28 × 1 × 18 cm
Material/Technique
Grass fruit; plant fibre
braided
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D00391
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D00391

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1893
    where
    Madang
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Kapitän Rohde - Former Possessors
    Kapitän Rohde - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

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Legal status metadata
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