A tubular bag from braided palm bast resp. probably fibre from the Raffia palm. The bag has knotted and fringy palm bast fibre at the bottom and is open but was originally sewed together what can be seen because of small holes. At the opening on the other side there are 60 wound resp. curled and braided strings that are tied to loops pairwise. The bag was closed while pulling a longer string through the loops. It has a black, so-called plangi pattern that arises through lacing before the dyeing and that reminds of a batik or honeycomb pattern.
The object was acquired by the Ulm merchant Christoph Weickmann for his cabinet of curiosities and is mentioned in the inventory for Weickmann's collection of 1659. From where he obtained the non-European objects is unknown except for one case and not researchable due to missing sources. What is certain, however, is that Weickmann didn't gain them on site by himself. He must have gotten them from middlemen because he didn't travel outside of Europe.
The remains of the collection Weickmann came into possession of the city of Ulm between 1785 and 1825 and were deposited with the Association for Arts and Antiquities in Ulm and Upper Swabia since 1857. At the end of the 19th century the objects came, together with the collection of the Antiquities Society, into the newly founded Gewerbemuseum (Museum of Applied Arts) and 1925 into the Museum of the City of Ulm.
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