Acrylic Bilum (Net Bag)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
label: Collection Date
content: 9 Apr 2012
name: label: Collector
content: Dr Barbara Andersen
notes: label: Notes
content: Small bilum (bag) made of acrylic yarn. Green with yellow and white horizontal wavy lines. Single handle. Fringe along the sides. Donor notes: Maker, Betty Naur. Cost: K60. An acrylic bilum worked in green, navy blue, orange-yellow, and white. The mouthband is multicolored and joined to the body with sets of 9 joining stitches. The body features framing rows of all four colors at top and bottom, with green as the “boss” or background color. Two tiers of “diamond” pattern form the central body of the bilum. One side of the bilum features a fringe of all four colors and the other side has a few strands of fringe near the mouth. The handle is a single flat piece with four panels: two solid green rectangles and two strips of three stripes (white, blue, and yellow-orange).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mirane, 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: E435214-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - From Mouth To Base
content: 25 cm
label: Width - At Base
content: 36.8 cm
label: Length - Handle
content: 64 cm