E0317: Hunting Bag

Ethnographic

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Identifier:

E0317

Classification Category:

4:Tools & Equipment for Materials ➞ Fishing & Trapping T&E

Marks/Labels:

TAG:"Hunting bag or sack. Native makes cord from hemplike material and knits the sack. It is soaked in water and rubbed with ashes to bleach it, then filled with stones and hung on a branch of a tree to stretch and dry. Presented by Missionary A.E. Gunderson from the Sudan Mission."

Materials:

botanical ➔ fiber

Dimensions:

45 cm L
50 cm W

Source Locality:

Sudan, Cameroon, Central African Republic

Acquisition Date:

November 25 1927

Description:

Hunting back woven from soft fiber.

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