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bag

The bag made from plant fibres has a large handle on the top. The front is decorated with many small, white nassa snails in different arrangements.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
bags (generic containers)
Dimensions
General: 44.5 × 29.5 × 2.5 cm
Material/Technique
Wet snail shell; plant fibre twisted; threaded
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D09664
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D09664

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Papua New Guinea
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Arnold Fabricius - Former Possessors
  • 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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