Basketry mat

Museum number:
11-2099
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.638
Description:
Conical basketry mat. Conical mat, used by both men and women to shelter head from the mosquito’s biting during the night. Infants were placed beneath. Local name is nagonara. Mythic association with Wawalak cycle.
Donor:
William Lloyd Warner
Collection place:
Northeast Arnhem Land, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
Culture or time period:
Aboriginal Australians
Collector:
William Lloyd Warner
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1929
Department:
Oceania
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basketry mat, accession number 11-2099, described as Conical basketry mat. Conical mat, used by both men and women to shelter head from the mosquito’s biting during the night. Infants were placed beneath. Local name is nagonara. Mythic association with Wawalak cycle.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basketry mat, accession number 11-2099, described as Conical basketry mat. Conical mat, used by both men and women to shelter head from the mosquito’s biting during the night. Infants were placed beneath. Local name is nagonara. Mythic association with Wawalak cycle.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basketry mat, accession number 11-2099, described as Conical basketry mat. Conical mat, used by both men and women to shelter head from the mosquito’s biting during the night. Infants were placed beneath. Local name is nagonara. Mythic association with Wawalak cycle.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry mat, accession number 11-2099, described as Conical basketry mat. Conical mat, used by both men and women to shelter head from the mosquito’s biting during the night. Infants were placed beneath. Local name is nagonara. Mythic association with Wawalak cycle.

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