Indonesia · Papua / Undated type or practice · no individual specimen
Noken, a knotted carrying bag
The labour inside the net
UNESCO documents noken as bags knotted or woven from plant fibres in Papua. Carrying is only the visible end of a longer process: gathering, preparing fibre and making a structure that can hold weight. Compare it with the Avoska without treating the two as the same history. A similar net can emerge from different materials, skills and relations to land. Safeguarding the practice requires attention to the makers, not only admiration for an adaptable shape. This record identifies a tradition, not an individual bag, its owner or its age.
- Date
- Undated type or practice · no individual specimen
- Maker / designer
- Papuan makers; individual maker unrecorded
- Material
- Wood fibre or leaves; knotting and weaving
- Context
- A comparative record of work and shared life. Inclusion does not assign a socialist identity to its makers.
Evidence: Date not established · Place recorded at country level
Historical record
- UNESCO · Noken · nomination 00619
- This is a type or practice record, not a provenance for a particular household object.