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bag

The bag made from plant fibres has a rectangular shape and a handle at the top. The front is decorated with lots of small, white snail shells.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
bags (generic containers)
Dimensions
General: 49 × 31.5 × 1.5 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre; Cymbium snail shell; Job's tear
twisted; threaded; drilled
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D09339
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D09339

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1912
    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
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