Bag woven of palm leaves; 79cms L x 44cms W (at widest part).
Donor:
Gene C. Wilken
Collection place:
Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; Pue.;Tehuacan Valley; (purchased in market for P5.00, or US $0.40)
Collector:
Gene C. Wilken
Collection date:
March 8, 1974
Materials:
Palm
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Accession date:
October 27, 1998
Context of use:
Used to hoist and carry excavated material from “galerias filtrantes” (“qanat” - horizontal wells) in Tehuacan Valley; bags may be lowered and raised with rope, or slung on the back for transporting materials, sometimes with a tump line.