Bilum (Net Bag)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 16 Jan 2011
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Joshua A. Bell
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Bilum of figure eight looped yarn. The body of the bilum is dark purple, with an artistic representation of the PNG flag bordered by white, yellow, red, and dark blue. The flag is blue with white embroidered stars on the left half, and a red with a yellow bird of paradise on the right. The design is almost identical on the front and back. Both sides have several one- or two-strand decorative tassels attached at various parts of the the body. The bilum has a single handle that is mostly purple with blocks of yellow, red, dark blue, and white at the center. The bilum appears to be slightly faded, as the color is darker on the inside than on the outside.
label: Notes
content: Donor notes: "Cost, 30 kina. Made by Etopawe Lakei (approximately 60 in age [in 2011]) from the Mogavo clan of Bena in the Eastern Highlands."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Goroka, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bena
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2058627
label: USNM Number
content: E435182-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 58.5 cm
label: Width
content: 46.5 cm
label: Length - Body
content: 31.5 cm
label: Length - Handle
content: 27 cm