bag
- Museum number
- Oc1855,1220.176
- Description
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Bag, coiled, of vegetable fibres, with string handle attached.
- Production date
- 19thc (before 1855)
- Dimensions
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Height: 55 centimetres
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Width: 36.50 centimetres
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Depth: 12 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Description from Extracts from the British and Medieval Register 1757-1878, p. 185:
176. Long stiff bag, very coarse, with plaited cord band. L. 1 foot 10 inches. Made by the natives of S. Australia.
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A label attached to the bag reads: 'original label says "S.Aust" which is correct. The later "Pt Essington" attribution is wrong. Style of Encounter Bay tribe.' (A photograph of this label is attached to this record).
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'Encounter Bay' has quite a restricted geographical association today, but in the mid-19th century it took in a broad area, certainly from Goolwa around to Victor Harbor, and included the hinterland. This basket type would also have extended south-east around Lakes Alexandrina and Albert, and upstream to the region of Blanchetown or Eyre's settlement of Moorunde.' Information from Philip Jones, South Australian Museum 24 Aug 2010
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2011 26 May-11 Sep, London, BM, G91, Baskets and Belonging: Indigenous Australian Histories
2015 23 Apr-2 Aug, London, BM, G35, Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation
- 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
- Oc1855,1220.176
