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net bag

The bag has a large handle on the top. The surface of the bag is decorated with six rows of small shells or snail shells and many individual fringes.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
bags (generic containers)
Dimensions
General: 44.5 × 31 × 1 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre; wet ash shell; Job's tears braided; rope work
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D08787
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D08787

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1907
    where
    Papua New Guinea
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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