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woven bag

The handbag made from brown plant fibres is semi-circular. There is a large handle on the side of the opening. The entire front is decorated with nassa snail shells.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
bags (generic containers)
Dimensions
General: 42 × 26 × 2.5 cm
Material/Technique
Wet snail shell; plant fibre Snail embroidery
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D08781
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D08781

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    East Sepik
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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