Bag

Museum number:

3-30151a-c

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm210330151a@2dc

Alternate number:

13 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.4695

Description:

Cargo Net (A) 104cms L x 33cms W (B) 96cms L x 33cms W (C) 84cms L x 30cms W; with 7cms wide strap with purple and green border and affixed to cargo net by knots.

Donor:

Gene C. Wilken

Collection place:

Quetzaltenango, Quetzaltenango Department, Guatemala

Verbatim coll. place:

Guatemala; Quezaltenango (purchased in market for Q 0.40)

Culture or time period:

Guatemalan

Collector:

Gene C. Wilken

Collection date:

December 8, 1973

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Bags (generic containers)

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

Accession date:

October 27, 1998

Context of use:

Cargo net for human shoulder or back to carry and tump line. General purpose net for carrying wide variety of objects (e.g. pots, wooden ware). Islas Escarcega (1961: 142-143) notes that indigenous merchants used to carry loads equal to their own weight for distances up to 65 kilometers in a day. The figures become less remarkable when compared to S.A. Downer’s estimate of 200 pound loads in leather bags carried great distances by Mexican “tenateros” in the New almaden mine near San Jose, California (re: sheet on “chatenate”; “tenate” in this collection).

Department:

Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area

Dimensions:

a)— length 109 centimeters, c)— length 107 centimeters, a)— width 41 centimeters, b)— length 95 centimeters, b)— width 32 centimeters, and c)— width 30 centimeters

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