Context (Display)
Display label found with towel: 'Linen towel: (pyhelüna) / Flax is grown and processed in the Vieki locality.'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Dr Ray Abrahams in 1982
Event Date 1982
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Display)
Exhibited in the Department of Social Anthropology, 1983 to January 1988

Event Date 1983
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
Catalogue card: 'Flax is grown and processed in the Vieki locality.'

Event Date 1988
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Linen towel woven of flax - light grey in colour'
Event Date 27/4/1988
Author: maa

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.1239 | Repack
Event Date 28/4/2015
Author: cao37

Description (Physical description)
Rectangular woven linen panel, two longer edges make up selvedge and shorter edges folded over and hemmed. Cotton tape added to centre of 1 longer side - possibly museum addition as exhibited for several years.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Pyhelüna. Rectangular linen towel with hemmed short edges. Made with locally grown flax.
Event Date 8/3/2023
Author: Katrina Dring