Acrylic Bilum (Net Bag)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
label: Collection Date
content: 28 Jan 2012
name: label: Collector
content: Dr Barbara Andersen
notes: label: Notes
content: Bilum (bag) made of acrylic yarn. Background of narrow blue and white stripes, overlaid with large diamond pattern in blue, white, and red. Short, single handle. Donor notes: Maker, Jenny. Cost: K90. An acrylic bilum worked in maroon, dark green, blue, and white yarn. The yarn has been stripped and re-plied to make a finer thread. The stitching is a finer version of the “fish scale” technique (Sepik Style?) seen also in HB14. The pattern is one of many referred to as “diamond” and is associated with the Mt. Hagen area. The mouth and joining stitches are maroon. The base is closed with tight fastening stitches in blue, maroon and green; the handle is short and doubled, featuring random alternations of the bilum's colors. This bilum was purchased at the Wara Maket second-hand clothes market in Kundiawa, Simbu Province, and was sold by relatives of the woman who made it.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kundiawa, Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chimbu (Kuman)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2077517
label: USNM Number
content: E435201-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Mouth To Base
content: 30 cm
label: Width - At Base
content: 47 cm
label: Length - Handle
content: 41 cm