Pig rope

Maker
Unknown Maker
Description
In 1974 Waikato Museum acquired a selection of items, including this pig rope, 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: Three plait rope of some plant fibre. Kaj = pig; nag = rope. These pig ropes are made by women. Both men and women care for pigs, but women more than men. These ropes are also used for carrying shields and would be used on the shields that have lost their ropes. Type of plant unknown.
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Maker
Media/Materials
Natural fibre; three plait rope.
Measurements
220 x 110 x 95mm - HxWxD (measured as rolled).
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
1974/64/185

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