This donkey bag is made of cowhide. Women use this bag to keep private possessions. Items such as ornaments, clothing, calabashes etc. are kept in this bag. When migrating from one place to the next this bag is loaded onto the donkey; women consider this bag to be a very portable one. The blending stitches are decorations made by the owner; decorations are based on artistic. Noolaitete Ene Maimai contributed this bag.
Cow hide and leather
22 x 19 1/2 x 4 in. (55.9 x 49.5 x 10.2 cm)
General Acquisition Fund
2000.5
Not currently on view
Resources
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Feb. 7 - May 19, 2002 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 2, 2004 - Jan. 2, 2005; Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Feb. 12 - June 19, 2005; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, Oct. 8, 2005 - Jan. 1, 2006; Nashville, Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Jan. 27 - Apr. 30, 2006 [as African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back]).
Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.
