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 Stathern, 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 or given to the donor, Mount Hagen during fieldwork, 1972-5.
"Good bilums 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 from 'traditional' bark fibre and vegetable dyes. [From notes by Prof. Marilyn Strathern, 18/8/2003]


Event Date 5/10/2015
Author: maa

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2018.4059 | Remedial
Event Date 27/2/2018
Author: Kirstie Williams