Needle – bat wingbone

Maker
Unknown Maker
Description
In 1974 Waikato Museum acquired a selection of items, including this needle, from Graham Jackson. Jackson was a New Zealand anthropologist who spent time living with and researching the Kopon and the Kalam people of the Lower Kaironk Valley in Papua New Guinea.


Jackson fieldnotes: Needle from a bat (mawol) wingbone. Sharp spike with hole for the fine string to be threaded. Probably manufactured by men. Used for sewing bags, threading beads.

Object detail

Maker
Media/Materials
Bat wingbone.
Measurements
84 x 2mm - length x diameter.
Production place
Lower Kaironk Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Collection
Graham Jackson Collection/New Guinea Collection/Ethnology
Department collection type
Ethnology
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1974/64/40

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