Bark container

Museum number:

11-39686

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Accession number:

Acc.2431

Description:

Container, bark; long strips of flattened eucalyptus bark is folded over, sides sewn together with cane fiber; rim embroidered with same fiber material; both sides painted with red, yellow and white pigments in abstract band and cross hatch.

Donor:

W. Sprott Boyd

Collection place:

Melville Island, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory

Culture or time period:

Tiwi people (N20)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Containers (receptacles)

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1968

Department:

Oceania

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