Bag
- Museum number:
- 3-17564
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030017564
- Accession number:
- Acc.2065
- Description:
- Knotless netting shoulder strap bag (bolsa; made from Furcrasa fiber; black bands of dye from seeds of Macuna sp.
- Donor:
- Theodore D. McCown
- Collection place:
- Talamanca (canton), Limón Province, Costa Rica
- Culture or time period:
- Cabécar people
- Collector:
- Humberto Miranda
- Collection date:
- 1965
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Bags (generic containers)
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Comment:
- According to collector and donor, the bag is made of "pita" (bast cordage), a fine variety of "cabuya" (a Spanish term meaning Furcraea fiber in Costa Rica). The fiber is hand-combed before spinning. The dye for the black bands is from the seed of "ojo de buey" (Mucuna sp.), and the red-brown from the leaf of an unidentified plant
- Loans:
- S1968-1969 #33: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Charles Rossbach (November 8, 1968–November 12, 1968)
- Legacy documentation:
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