bag
- Museum number
- Oc1855,1220.174
- Description
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Woman's bag, woven from vegetable fibres, and decorated with red and yellow pigments.
- Production date
- 1855 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 37 centimetres
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Width: 12 centimetres
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Depth: 11 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Description from Extracts from the British and Medieval Register 1757-1878, p.184:
174. Long stiff bag with rounded end, made of matting and painted red and yellow. It is said to be used by the women of Port Essington to keep the skeleton of a deceased infant, which they always carry about with them. L. 14 inches.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty through Sir John Liddell, C.B. (the Museum of Haslar Hospital)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1855,1220.174
