Description ()
Label tied to object notes: 'Collected and donated by Dr. George Salt, Zoologist in Colombia among the Arhucao Indians, 1926-27.'
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Context (Field collection)
Collected in 1926 by Dr George Salt, zoologist among the Arhuaco (1926-1927).
Salt was studying the banana fruit-​scarring beetle (Colaspis hyperchlora) while working for the Colombia Division of the United Fruit Company.
Event Date 1926
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1988.325 notes: 'Woven cotton [bag]. White with eleven horizontal lines in plum (purple). Wide strap in white. Stained with age.'
Event Date 1988
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Printed Accessions register noted 'CULTURAL AREA. Ethnic group: Kogi Indian. Cultural Group: Arhuaco Indian. Linguistic group: Arhuaco Indian'.

Event Date 1988
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Acquired by MAA on 18 May 1988.
Event Date 18/5/1988
Author: Lucie Carreau

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6040 | Freezing
Event Date 11/10/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Description (Physical description)
Muchila. Bag made from woven pale white cotton with ten purple horizontal lines across the body and a circle on the bottom; some light blue and pink smudges possibly dye. The structural shape of the body is a conical half sphere with a flat bottom. The handle is short and wider in the middle and narrower at the edges; woven with strings of twisted cotton.
Event Date 4/9/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

Context (Analysis)
Would have been worn suspended about the neck, and be one of several bags carried at the same time by both men and women.
From knowledge shared during filming as part of the Carrier Bag Project by artists and researchers Dr Marina Velez Vago and Julieta Aranda, at the Centre for Material Culture, 3/05/2025
Event Date 23/5/2025
Author: Rachel Hand