Acrylic Bilum (Net Bag)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
label: Collection Date
content: 21 Aug 2011
name: label: Collector
content: Dr Barbara Andersen
notes: label: Notes
content: Small bilum (bag) made of acrylic yarn. Very bright orange, red, blue, and duller blue in a vertical stepped pattern. Single handle. Donor notes: Maker, Maria Amos. Cost: K50. A small bilum in the “half kundu” (sometimes called “fish bone” or “razor blade”) style made from tightly looped orange, red, maroon, indigo and green acrylic yarn. A short handle worked in longitudinal stripes of red, green, indigo and maroon allows the wearer to carry it tightly under the shoulder to evade pickpocketing when in town. This is the second bilum that the maker, an unmarried teenaged girl, has produced. Interviewees indicated that most girls in Maimafu make their first bilums shortly after puberty, though the basic plying and looping techniques are usually learned in early childhood.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Maimafu, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Gimi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2077517
label: USNM Number
content: E435198-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - From Mouth To Base
content: 29.2 cm
label: Width - At Base
content: 36 cm
label: Length - Handle
content: 51 cm