Accession No
1934.560
Description
Bilum bag. Carrying bag made of native fibre netted or plaited. The front is dyed with stripes in two colours, reddish brown and blue. The back is plain. The string bag has a frill of strings at the bottom.
Place
Oceania; Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Bismarck Archipelago; New Britain; Sag Sag; Na-Parr
Period
Source
Sherwin, Vernon Henry Gough (Rev.) [collector and donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
1934.560
Cultural Affliation
Material
Plant
Local Term
Measurements
365mm x 440mm
Events
Exhibition (Maudslay Gallery)
EXH.2018.4 | Pacific Currents
Event Date
Author: Remke Velden
Context (CMS Context)
Collected by: Sherwin.Reverend.H;
Event Date 12/7/1995
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Bilum bag. Original accession notes: " Carrying bag made of native fibre netted or plaited. The front is dyed with stripes in two colours, reddish brown and blue. The back is plain." Good; The string bag has a frill of strings at the bottom. The technique is more like netting than looping. Compact surface;
Event Date 12/7/1995
Author: maa
Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2018.4032 | Remedial
Event Date 6/2/2018
Author: Kirstie Williams
Context (Amendments / updates)
This is Reverend Vernon Henry Gough Sherwin, who worked as an Anglican missionary in New Britain and the New Guinea goldfields from 1928, and corresponded with Haddon on the ethnology of West of New Britain
Event Date 3/6/2020
Author: rachel hand
FM:118741
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