Bag

Museum number:
9-14884
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3357
Description:
Bag (mazwadah); flour bag in dark and medium brown and white hair and wool in warp face technique; two big loops at each side on top and two plaited cords in same colors and materials. Materials: camel hair, goat hair, sheep wool. Length, not including loops: 66cm. Width: 54cm. Sprayed with DDT in alcohol (10/1978). Context: for keeping flour in when not at home e.g. when a man is travelling by camel, or when a woman is away with goats and sheep. At home, flour is kept in a sack. The four big loops (2 on each side) are for typing the bad e.g. to a camel saddle when travelling. The two threads at the mouth are for closing the opening tightly. This is done by bending it into an S shape first. Used by men and women, made by women. Cost 70USD
Donor:
Frank H. Stewart and University of Oxford
Collection place:
Thamad, Sinai peninsula, Egypt
Culture or time period:
Ahaywat tribe
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers) and Plaited weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
November 1977
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 9-14884, described as Bag (mazwadah); flour bag in dark and medium brown and white hair and wool in warp face technique; two big loops at each side on top and two plaited cords in same colors and materials. Materials: camel hair, goat hair, sheep wool. Length, not including loops: 66cm. Width: 54cm. Sprayed with DDT in alcohol (10/1978). Context: for keeping flour in when not at home e.g. when a man is travelling by camel, or when a woman is away with goats and sheep. At home, flour is kept in a sack. The four big loops (2 on each side) are for typing the bad e.g. to a camel saddle when travelling. The two threads at the mouth are for closing the opening tightly. This is done by bending it into an S shape first. Used by men and women, made by women. Cost 70USD
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 9-14884, described as Bag (mazwadah); flour bag in dark and medium brown and white hair and wool in warp face technique; two big loops at each side on top and two plaited cords in same colors and materials. Materials: camel hair, goat hair, sheep wool. Length, not including loops: 66cm. Width: 54cm. Sprayed with DDT in alcohol (10/1978). Context: for keeping flour in when not at home e.g. when a man is travelling by camel, or when a woman is away with goats and sheep. At home, flour is kept in a sack. The four big loops (2 on each side) are for typing the bad e.g. to a camel saddle when travelling. The two threads at the mouth are for closing the opening tightly. This is done by bending it into an S shape first. Used by men and women, made by women. Cost 70USD

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