Bag
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected by Felix V. DiGiovanni (1909-1990, an explorer and photographer) while traveling and making an ethnographic film in Colombia between 1933 and the early 1940s; donated to NMAI in 1992 by his wife Pauline G. DiGiovanni (1915-2005).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- circa 1935
- Catalog Number
- 25/4022
- Barcode
- 254022.000
- Culture/People
- Guahibo
- Collector
- Felix V. DiGiovanni, Non-Indian, 1909-1990
- Previous owner
- Felix V. DiGiovanni, Non-Indian, 1909-1990
- Donor
- Pauline G. DiGiovanni, Non-Indian, 1915-2005
- Object Type
- Bags/Pouches (and parts)
- Object Name
- Bag
- Media/Materials
- Palm frond/fronds
- Techniques
- Looped
- Dimensions
- 166 x 34 cm
- Place
- Plains, Río Orinoco and Río Vichada region; Vichada Department; Colombia
- See related items
- Guahibo
- Bags/Pouches (and parts)
- Record ID
- NMAI_270044
- Usage
- CC0
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