apron
- Museum number
- Oc1990,09.384
- Description
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Apron, man's, netted in narrow black and white stripes from synthetic yarn and marsupial fur; incorporates occasional blocks of purple yarn; bottom of apron fringed with decorative fragments of marsupial skin and fur.
- Production date
- 20thC(mid)-20thC(late) (before 1990)
- Dimensions
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Length: 174 centimetres
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Width: 50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Man’s apron (‘konzap’ in the Wahgi language) purchased from Bebi, natally of Waka group at the eastern end of the Wahgi cultural area, and married to James Bosu of the Sekaka sub-group Akilkanem. Bosu is pictured in Plate 7 of O’Hanlon 1993, but this apron is not the one he is wearing there but was made later by Bosu’s sister Munamamb Dao for Bosu to wear for dancing associated with ‘wupal’ gift exchange. Today, such aprons are worn only for ceremonial occasions. For an account of the making of the collection of which this is part, see ‘Paradise: portraying the New Guinea Highlands’, by Michael O’Hanlon (British Museum Press, 1993).
Field collection no:246.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1990
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1990,09.384
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 246 (field collection number)