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D08780 woven bag

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

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Übersee-Museum Bremen Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
handbags
Dimensions
General: 41.5 × 29 × 2.5 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre; Rotang; wet snail shell | snail embroidery
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D08780

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913 (?)
    where
    East Sepik Province (?)

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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