Exhibition (Maudslay Gallery)
EXH.2018.4 | Pacific Currents
Event Date
Author: Remke Velden

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: On display a part of the billum tree installation in Assembling Bodies: Art, Science & Imagination, Andrews Gallery 10 March 2009 - 6 November 2010.
Event Date 5/10/2015
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (CMS Context)
Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, William Wyseman Professor of Anthropology, 1993- 2008, Cambridge University, conducted fieldwork in the New Guinea Highlands and in Port Moresby from the 1960s onward.
Purchased by the donor in Mount Hagen during fieldwork, 1964-5.
"Good billums are expensive (20- 50 Kina in 1995 before inflation i.e., £10- £25 sterling). All these were paid for in some manner or other, even when 'given' (i.e., through return gifts): these are not the kind of things one receives without making recompense. They are regarded as quintessentially 'Papua New Guinean'." [From notes by Prof. Marilyn Strathern, 18/8/2003]

Event Date 5/10/2015
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Bilum or string bag, made entirely out of fisherman’s plastic twine, using three different colours, (green, orange, yellow). [From notes by Prof. Marilyn Strathern, 18/8/2003]
Event Date 5/10/2015
Author: maa

Conservation (Surface Clean)
CON.2018.4034 | Surface Clean
Event Date 8/2/2018
Author: Christina Rozeik