| Title | Straw bag |
| Date | 1968 |
| Material Type | Straw (plant material)
Straw work
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| Description | Large straw bag made of dark colored straw and decorated with shells. Lined with brown cloth. The straw was woven in Long Bay Cays and sold to craftswomen in Nassau. Originally purchased in the straw market of Nassau, Bahamas. |
| Dimensions | Length: 27 cm; Height: 35 cm |
| Subject | Handicraft -- Bahamas
Straw industries -- Bahamas -- 20th century
Straw work -- Bahamas -- 20th century
Tourism -- Bahamas
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| Geographic Region | West Indies
Bahamas
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| Collector | Otterbein, Keith
Otterbein, Charlotte
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| Collection in Repository | Keith and Charlotte Otterbein Collection
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| Collection Note | The Keith and Charlotte Otterbein collection contains straw objects obtained while doing ethnographic work in Nassau, Bahamas between 1959 and 1987. Many of the items in this collection were made by individual Bahamian craftswomen (also called "plaiters") who maintained their independence in the straw industry, while four were sold in the Nassau straw market, thus likely mass produced. The light colored plaits of these objects are made of cabbage palm, and the dark colored plaits are coconut straw. |
| Call Number | 2008.012.002a |
| Holding Institution | Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston
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| Digital Collection | Avery Research Center Artifact Collection
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| Rights | Digital image copyright 2010, The College of Charleston Libraries. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424. |
| Media Type | Objects |
