Bag
- Museum number:
- 5-6908
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050006908
- Alternate number:
- 46 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2155
- Description:
- Native name: Kthungi or kyondo String bag; twined sisal string with parallel band designs, two red, one black; leather strap attached to leather piece at both ends; strap split into 3 pieces at each end with pieces of brass crimped around it; glass disc beads at strap ends; h. 23 cm; dia. 33 cm. Materials: Twined sisal; leather; brass; beads Used by women to carry things. Strap looped over head with bag supported on back. Made by women
- Donor:
- Ronald J. Clarke and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Ukambani, Kenya
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa; Kenya; Ukambani; Kamba (Murdock...44:2)
- Culture or time period:
- Kamba
- Collector:
- Ronald J. Clarke
- Collection date:
- 1965
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Bags (generic containers) and Twined weaving
- Function:
- 1.4 Transportation
- Accession date:
- 1966
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Images:
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