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Object Type
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
Production date: 1844 (before)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Port Jackson
Materials
Technique
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
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1860-1869
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Oc.4060
Additional IDs: CDMS number: Oc186?C1.4060 (old CDMS no.)

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