Bark tobacco box

Description
The base and top of the lid are wood. The sides are bark and decorated with three bands of plaited bamboo. The top of the lid is red and has a wire loop at its centre. The bark is black.
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Object detail

Media/Materials
Wood lid and base, bark sides, bamboo detailing.
Production place
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Collection
N.M. Roe Collection/Iban & Indonesian Collection/Ethnology
Department collection type
Ethnology
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1972/129/36

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