Betel Bag
Object Number: | 87-8-7 |
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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.
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