Bag

Description

Bag (saranip), twined bark, used for carrying gathered wild plants: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th to early 20th century

Museum reference

A.1909.499.38

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Bag, Saranip

Production information

Unknown
Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia

Date

19th - early 20th century

Style / Culture

Ainu people (Hokkaido), Japanese

Materials

Pine bark

Physical description

Twined pine bark

Exhibitions

• Living Lands (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• A Scottish Physician's View: Craft and Spirit of the Ainu from the N. G. Munro Collection (26 Apr 2002 - 01 Sep 2002)
  Historical Museum of Hokkaido
  Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History

References

A Scottish Physician's View: Craft and Spirit of the Ainu from the N. G. Munro Collection (2002), no. 283 (p.78)

On display

national museum of scotland »
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world cultures, living lands »
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