Net Bag

29-50-236

From: New Guinea | German New Guinea | Sepik River | Tambunum

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 29-50-236
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | German New Guinea | Sepik River | Tambunum
Section Oceanian
Materials Plant Fiber | Feather | Shell
Description

Boy's netting bag decorated wtih cassowary feathers to which are tied the stripped vanes of white feathers; and with strings of "Job's tears" (coix lachryma)

Length 7.5 cm
Width 7.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924
Other Number 263 - Other Number

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