Bag

Museum number:
11-973
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.18
Description:
bag of natural fibers knotted into a mesh, string bag. Dark brown with horizontal stripes of green and shades of brown. A linear design formed by small shells with larger shells irregularly interspersed. 18.5 cm long; 26 cm wide, handle 35 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
New Guinea, Melanesia
Verbatim coll. place:
New Guinea
Culture or time period:
Melanesian
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
November 26, 1901
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1929: Los Angeles Natural History Museum (May 1929–1945) and S1981-1982 #39: University of California, Davis/Pat Charley (January 19, 1982–March 30, 1982)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 11-973, described as bag of natural fibers knotted into a mesh, string bag. Dark brown with horizontal stripes of green and shades of brown. A linear design formed by small shells with larger shells irregularly interspersed. 18.5 cm long; 26 cm wide, handle 35 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 11-973, described as bag of natural fibers knotted into a mesh, string bag. Dark brown with horizontal stripes of green and shades of brown. A linear design formed by small shells with larger shells irregularly interspersed. 18.5 cm long; 26 cm wide, handle 35 cm.

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