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seven new guinea fibre bags
One with woven design in yellow orchid fibre and sewn with two bands of paired boar's tusks, Middle Sepik; two sewn all over with nassa shells; two sewn with design in Job's tears; a small bag woven with yellow and brown orchid fibre on fibre strap; and a woven Asmat bag suspending tassels of cassowary quills, Job's tears and feathers
The longest 36cm. (7)
One with woven design in yellow orchid fibre and sewn with two bands of paired boar's tusks, Middle Sepik; two sewn all over with nassa shells; two sewn with design in Job's tears; a small bag woven with yellow and brown orchid fibre on fibre strap; and a woven Asmat bag suspending tassels of cassowary quills, Job's tears and feathers
The longest 36cm. (7)
Exhibited
Art Papou, Brussels, 1979, fig.3.22, for the first. The author suggests that such a bag with its elaborate ornamentation would have been reserved for ritual use.