Dip fishing net with a frame of cane and pandanus rope net. [ASh [OPS move] 28/6/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Dip fishing net with a frame of cane and pandanus rope net. [ASh [OPS move] 28/6/2017]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Gulf Province Kikori District Purari Delta Mapaio
Cultural groups: I'ai
Person: Maker Aea Kairao’o Api’iko; Field collector Joshua A. Bell; PRM source Joshua A. Bell
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 2002?, uncertain
Date collected: 29 July 2002
Acquisition information: Purchased: 2002
Materials and processes: Material Pandanus Plant, Material Rope Plant, Material Cane Plant, Process Bound, Process Woven, Process Knotted
Dimensions: Depth: max 320 mm, Width: max 460 mm, Length: max 895 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2002.85.9 Other numbers: PD91
Associated publications: Listed on page 65 of Basketry: Making Human Nature (Norwich: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, 2011): 'Iviri dip-fishing net with cane frame, 2002 | Mapaio, Purari Delta, Papua New Guinea, Pacific | Pandanus, rope, cane | 89.5 x 46 x 32 cm | Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (2002.85.9)'. (For details of the exhibition for which this was the catalogue, see under Display History.) [JC 9 9 2019]

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