Collection
Unknown
(Papua New Guinea)
- Title
- Plaited cane bag
- Other titles:
- Billum bag, carried by old men
Woven cane bag
Aenkiya nuw (Cane-bamboo bag)
Haeriya nuw (Cane-bamboo bag)
Tog nuw (Peeled-off bag) - Place of origin
-
Nipa →
Southern Highlands Province →
Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Wola people
- Year
- collected 1969
- Media category
- Mixed media
- Materials used
- plaited cane, looped plant fibre string strap and side seams
- Dimensions
-
57.0 x 24.2 x 3.8cm overall, including strap:
0 - Whole; 33 x 24.2 x 3.8cm
0 - Whole; 54cm
0 - Whole; 7.5cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Accession number
- 254.1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
-
Paul Sillitoe, Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, 'Woven cane bag', pg. 260-262, London, 1988, 260-262, 292 (illus.). Detailed description of the construction of a Wola woven cane bag. NOTE: photographs on pg. 292 are of a typical woven cane bag, although not of as fine a quality as 254.1977
