Carrying bag. Dark brown skin bag with plaited leather handle/strap and decorative leather fringe of ?twisted and rolled leather. [MOBB [OPS move] 13/1/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Carrying bag. Dark brown skin bag with plaited leather handle/strap and decorative leather fringe of ?twisted and rolled leather. [MOBB [OPS move] 13/1/2017]
Long description: Carrying bag made out of goat skin with fine tassels. [RJ 13/3/2003] Description added by [RJ 13/3/2003] - Bag with thin braided goats leather handle at one end, tassels at the other. The tassels are stitched to the bag at the end of three protruding points (probably two legs and a tail of the goat). They are finely braided goats leather with little leather coils attached for decoration. The bag is long and narrow, like a goats hide folded in half. The inside of the bag is the underside of the leather.
Geographical reference: Oman
Asia > Western Asia > Oman
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Gigi Crocker Jones; PRM source Gigi Crocker Jones
Date / Period: Date made: Before 2003
Date collected: By 2003
Acquisition information: Donated: 2003
Materials and processes: Material Goat Skin Animal, Process Stitched, Process Plaited, Process Twisted, Process Rolled
Dimensions: Depth: max 55 mm, Width: max 320 mm, Length: max 640 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2003.11.29 Other numbers: Field collector's catalogue number: Leather 10
Research and responses: More information on goat skin preparation - see record 2003.11.25 [RJ 22/1/2003]

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