Un sac et cinq tabliers ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Golfe de Huon · ID: 3048837

Description

carrying bag (net bag), made of twisted bast fibres, manufactured in so-called hourglass- or figure-of-eight loops and thus particularly stretchable, l: 61 cm, b: 75 cm

In addition, five aprons divers: one lush skirt-like apron made of shredded sago palm feathers, w: 77 cm (waistband), l: ca. 50 cm; four aprons, each in two parts, with front and back sections, made of sago leaves (metroxylan), on broad bands of rushes with twisted cords to tie around, the fibres partly dyed, various waistband widths and lengths

Littérature comparée

Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Coburg 1986, p. 152, ill. 354