Acrylic Bilum (Net Bag)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
label: Collection Date
content: 28 May 2012
name: label: Collector
content: Dr Barbara Andersen
notes: label: Notes
content: Large bilum (bag) made of acrylic yarn. Green with maroon, yellow, and white interlocking wavy line pattern. Single handle. Donor notes: Maker, Roselyn. Cost: K35. A handbag-sized bilum in “spiderweb” pattern, made in gold, white, black, purple and dark green yarn. The mouth of this bilum is unusually ornate, featuring a row of small joining stitches in green and purple attached to a second set of joining loops in all five colors, topped with fastening stitches in white, purple, green, and black. “Spiderweb” pattern is described as a smaller version of the common “diamond” pattern. Three and a half tiers of links resembling a chain are cut by 4 tiers of alternating purple and green rectangles. The base is closed with purple fastening stitches. A short handle is made of longitudinal stripes in all five colors.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Gahuku
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2077517
label: USNM Number
content: E435227-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Base To Mouth
content: 24.1 cm
label: Width - At Base
content: 41 cm
label: Length - Handle
content: 38 cm