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. 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. Pig tethering rope of three-plait plant fibre tapering down to a two ply twist.
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