Woman's Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Oct 1966
name: label: Donor Name
content: Morton D. May
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Small flat, almost square opening on longest side where are two short loop handles. Identification by Bishop Museum: Native black dyed flax (Phormium tenax) in "taniko" plain twined technique as used in borders of dress cloaks. Decoration of two vertical rows of continuous horizontal diamonds. 5 cm. W. fringe of undyed flax. Used as general purse by women. [Formerly in the Denver Art Museum collection and their records indicate that] D.A.M. obtained in 1931 from Estate of Caroline Cronise, Kent, Conn. Illus. Fig. 95, p. 62 in A Guide to Weft Twining by David W. Fraser. Philadelphia: University of Penn. Press, 1989."
label: Notes
content: Bag has an old Denver Art Museum label.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 269318
label: USNM Number
content: E405683-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 28.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 21.3 cm