- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Nylon string bag, orange, red and white decoration on the body, with a blue and purple rim and single carrying strap. [SM 19/11/2010]
- Long description
- Nylon string bag, orange, red and white decoration on the body, with a blue and purple rim and single carrying strap. Crescent shaped nylon bilum. The bilum is made of 32 bands of figure eights. The handle is made of eight figure eights (this is its width). At the end of either side of the bag are small bound tassels of yellow nylon. The bilum’s body’s pattern is diamond (orange) with lines of red and white. The bilum’s lip is blue and purple and the handle alternating purple, blue, white and orange. [SM 19/11/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Gulf Province Kikori District Orokolo Bay Iuku
- Cultural groups
- Elema
- Person
- Maker Mavao Ive
- Field collector Joshua A. Bell
- Field collector Sebastian Haraha
- PRM source Joshua A. Bell
- Date / Period
- Date made: 2001
- Date collected
- 19 July 2002
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 2002
- Materials and processes
- Material Nylon Synthetic, Material String, Material Pigment, Process Netted
- Dimensions
- Length x Width x Height 430 x 810 x 810 mm with handle
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2002.85.97 Other numbers: PD87
- Associated publications
- Listed on page 64 of Basketry: Making Human Nature (Norwich: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, 2011): 'Nylon string bag, 2002 | Mavao Ive, Iuku, Orokolo Bay, Papua New Guinea, Pacific | Nylon synthetic string | l. with handle 81 x 81 cm | Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (2002.85.97)'. (For details of the exhibition for which this was the catalogue, see under Display History.) [JC 9 9 2019]
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