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net bag

The rectangular bag has a diamond-shaped pattern made from dark brown plant fibres. There are threads with glass beads on the bag. Plant fibres are knotted together at the upper end. There are fringes made from plant fibres at the lower end.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
bags (generic containers)
Dimensions
General: 39 x 87 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre; glass bead
braided
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D10068
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D10068

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1893
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections
Secondary literature
Ohnemus, Sylvia: Zur Kultur der Admitalitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel, 1996, S. 170

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