Hat

Museum number:
18-1263
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21180001263
Accession number:
Acc.3741
Description:
Bag, twill plaited with beaded straps. woven from corners to create expansion effect. Bag pattern is geometrical in natural, and black. Staps have black, blue, yellow, green beads in swirl pattern. A girl from Long Kuling wove the bad in about a week, three years ago [as of 1981]. The beadwork on the straps was done about 30 years ago [as of 1981] in three days by girl now dead [as of 1981]. The rest of the straps were made by a boy. For general carrying. Length 89 cm. Bag length 35 cm.
Donor:
Bernard G. Saunders and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Borneo, Indonesia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Hats and Plaited weaving
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Hat, accession number 18-1263, described as Bag, twill plaited with beaded straps. woven from corners to create expansion effect. Bag pattern is geometrical in natural, and black. Staps have black, blue, yellow, green beads in swirl pattern. A girl from Long Kuling wove the bad in about a week, three years ago [as of 1981]. The beadwork on the straps was done about 30 years ago [as of 1981] in three days by girl now dead [as of 1981]. The rest of the straps were made by a boy. For general carrying. Length 89 cm. Bag length 35 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hat, accession number 18-1263, described as Bag, twill plaited with beaded straps. woven from corners to create expansion effect. Bag pattern is geometrical in natural, and black. Staps have black, blue, yellow, green beads in swirl pattern. A girl from Long Kuling wove the bad in about a week, three years ago [as of 1981]. The beadwork on the straps was done about 30 years ago [as of 1981] in three days by girl now dead [as of 1981]. The rest of the straps were made by a boy. For general carrying. Length 89 cm. Bag length 35 cm.

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