bag (containers)

Bag, made of two woven pieces of fabric, forming the sides, strap and fringe, the other forming the main side panels of the bag. Of red fabric with integral supplementary weft all-over pattern, with detailing of discrete sloping crossing lines in pink, blue, orange, purple and yellow. Decorated on the side which is carried outwards with three rows of white metal convex discs, from the lower two of which hang chains with groups of pendants made of cut sheet metal, some flat with serrated ends, folded into 4-sided tubes. Two chains terminate in bells.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2013.10
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 990 mm x 280 mm x 10 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
metal; fabric
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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