bilum

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Bag

Mesh bags, known as »bilum« in New Guinea, are indispensable companions for men and women in everyday life. Men used these small bags to carry and keep safe essential items, such as tobacco, betel nuts and betel nut accessories. It has been very carefully made and is presumably old, because the handles have been dyed with plant pigment. Today's mesh bags are either made entirely of synthetic fibres or dyed with artificial pigments.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Tasche
Dimensions
Width: 250.0 mm
Height: 320.0 mm
Material/Technique
Bast, Bast fibre, Plant fibre, Knotting technique
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/2395

Provenance and sources

  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    24.01.2001
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    Melanesia (location/origin)
    who
    Hannelore Thumm (16.4.1922) - Collectors
    Hannelore Thumm (16.4.1922) - Collectors
    Thumm, Maximilian - Collectors
    Thumm, Maximilian - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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