bag
- Museum number
- Am1905,0216.64.a
- Description
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Bag made of barkcloth.
- Production date
- 1905 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 33 centimetres
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Width: 11 centimetres
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Depth: 5 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Information provided by Murui Muina elders and researcher Juan Alvaro Echeverri. This is a bag used to store dried coca leaves or mambe (coca leave powder). After the period of the rubber boom, the backcloth was replaced by industrial fabric and plastic bottles. Made from the bark of jidonina (Moraceae). Murui-Muina name: jɨgaro jiibiru
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1905,0216.64.a