bag
- Museum number
- Oc.7720
- Description
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Bag of vegetable fibre decorated with broad horizontal bands, originally white, divided by narrow red stripes. Ends formed from a series of loops at the mouth, a stout cord of twisted black cord passed through them.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1872)
- Dimensions
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Height: 37.70 centimetres
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Width: 70.30 centimetres
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Depth: 4.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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The shape of this bag appears similar to bags used in southwestern Queensland to carry pituri (native tobacco).
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Registration slip description, written in 1872?:
N.S.W.
S.E. Interior of Australia.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Acquisition notes
- Presd. by Rev. W.D. Parish, Feb. 6. 1872.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.7720
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1872C1.7720 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1872C0206.7