Basketry Food Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 May 1949
name: label: Donor Name
content: American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FOUR LOOSELY WOVEN BASKETRY BAGS USED FOR CARRYING CICAD NUTS AND LILY BULBS. THEY ARE MADE FROM PANDANUS LEAVES WITH STRING HANDLES. ONE IS PAINTED WITH RED AND WHITE STRIPES."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated p. 306, bottom left (as # E387491.1) in Hamby, Louise. 2010. Containers of power: Women with clever hands. Victoria, Australia: Utber & Patullo. Identified there as twined basket with ochered vertical stripes.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 178294
label: USNM Number
content: E387491-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 30 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 21.6 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 53 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 30 cm