MVC-0492 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Bag; 46 cm l, ca. 60 cm at widest point; 2 round handles with outside diameter, 14 cm; fiber wrapped and knotted around circular pieces to make handle; ca . two thirds down on each handle another laayer of double ply twine is knotted onto the handles and macramed forming bag proper; macramed tied off on inside of bottom.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Philippines
Verbatim coll. place:
Philippines
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1960s
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
for carrying fish
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 60 centimeters, length 46 centimeters, and diameter 14 centimeters