Bag Khun

Ethnicity: Papuans.
Place of origin: Papua New Guinea.
Geographical location of the place of origin: Gorendu village, Maclay Coast.
Material: plant materials (mango bark), fishing line.
Technique: weaving, knitting.
Dimensions: width 45 cm, height 35 cm.
Date: 2017.
Collectors-person: Miklouho-Maclay Nickolay Nikolaevich.
Time of use: 2017.
Usage: in everyday life for bearing personal things. Men wear over the shoulder, women tend to throw a strap on the forehead.
Condition: satisfactory.
The Kunstkamera collections analogue: Number МАЭ № 168-8.
Keywords: peoples of Australia and Oceania, Papuans, Maclay Coast

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