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bag
Object Type
bag
Museum number
Oc.4060
Description
Netted bag made of brown vegetable fibre cord with string handle made as an extension of body of bag using same technique.
Production ethnic group
Made by:
Aboriginal Australian
Production date
1844
(before)
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Port Jackson
Materials
fibre
Technique
netted
Dimensions
Height:
63.90 centimetres
Width:
15.50 centimetres
Depth:
1.90 centimetres
Curator's comments
Megaw (1993:35) says of bags Oc.4060 and Oc.4061: 'The bags are similar to that drawn by Charles-Alexandre Lesuer and published in the second edition of Francois Peron's and Louis de Freycinet's account of the Baudin expedition...; the Baudin bag appears to exhibit a similar knotting technique to that employed in the Arley Castle examples'.
As this object came from collection of Earl Moutnorris, it is likely it was collected by Frederick Bedwell, a midshipman on Phillip Parker King's voyages 1818-1821, who collected material for Mountnorris. See Siimpson 2020.
Christy collection registration slip, written in the 19th century: Port Jackson New South Wales Net bag made of fine cords of twisted brown fibre. L 13" W 5" Netted sling. From Arley Castle Colln Old tied-on handwritten label: Port Jackson - New S. Wales
Bibliographic references
Megaw 1993 / Something old, something new: further notes on the Aborigines of the Sydney district as represented by their surviving artefacts and as depicted in some early European representations
(pp.33-35)
Simpson 2020 / The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795-1855. Maritime Encounters and British Museum Collections.
(p.286)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Associated with:
Captain Phillip Parker King
(? see curatorial comment)
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Henry Christy
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris
Acquisition date
1860-1869
Department
Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number
Oc.4060
Additional IDs
CDMS number:
Oc186?C1.4060
(old CDMS no.)