Betel Bag - 87-8-7 | Collections

Object Number:	87-8-7
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Pipikoro
Provenience:	Sulawesi
Maker:	Tina Idjo
Date Made:	ca. 1967
Early Date:	1966
Late Date:	1968
Section:	Oceanian
Materials:	Bark Cloth Seeds
Width:	27.5 cm
Credit Line:	Purchased from Lorraine V. Aragon, 1987
Other Number:	21 - Other Number

Description

Betel bag (batutu). Used by man or woman to carry ingredients for betel nut chewing. Flat bag of brown-black barkcloth, trimmed with appliqued strips of white and yellow barkcloth. Large tassels of brown-black barkcloth hanging from short strings of tan and white seeds at bottom corners. Handle a strip of brown-black barkcloth. Body of bag from nunu lero (Ficus sp/: probably ficus infectoria) (see samples 87-8-29/31). Light-colored appliques from ambo (Broussonetia papyrifera), no longer cultivated in region. (See samples 87-8-45) Yellow sections colored with turmeric root (kunyi'). Made by Tina Idjo.