Acrylic Bilum (Net Bag)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
label: Collection Date
content: 24 May 2012
name: label: Collector
content: Dr Barbara Andersen
notes: label: Notes
content: Large bilum (bag) made of acrylic yarn. Multicolored interlocking-diamond pattern. Single handle. Donor notes: Maker, Maina. Cost: K35. A seven-color bilum composed of linked cross shapes outlined in black. The creator did not know whether or not the style had a name. The colors used are forest green, neon green, purple, orange, light blue, magenta, and black. The store-bought acrylic yarn has been stripped (undoing the commercial plying) and re-plied to create extra-fine threads, resulting in very small figure-8 stitches. The mouth (forest green) is joined to the body of the bilum with forest green stitches in sets of six. The color sequence of the body is (mouth to base, excluding black outlining) forest green, neon green, purple, orange, light blue, magenta, neon green, forest green, purple. The handle features light blue, forest green, and magenta diamonds and has been reinforced with neon green threads inserted between the loops horizontally, producing a weft. This bilum was purchased at the Goroka bilum market. The creator did not give a surname but informed me that she was from Henganofi, a rural district of Eastern Highlands Province.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kamano-Kafe
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2077517
label: USNM Number
content: E435222-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Base To Mouth
content: 30 cm
label: Width
content: 43 cm
label: Length - Handle
content: 59.7 cm