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Mutton-birding Bag Needles


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      Date: 1920 -

Description: Two bag needles, the first a manufactured steel bag needle, with a large eye and curved blade, the second a home made wooden needle with a sharply pointed needle end and flattened eye end with a 5 mm hole drilled in it. Used for sewing up hessian bags of mutton-bird feathers. Two of the original artefacts in the replica mutton-bird processing shed.

Format: realia
Object: needles

Titles:
Mutton-birding Bag Needles

Subjects: mutton-birdssewing

Institution: Furneaux Historical Research Association Inc.

Object number: FHR_00510

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