Basket
human history
Coconut leaf basket. Commencement at two split coconut frond segments. These two segments each have seven leave attached. The seven leaves have midribs removed and are split in half. Each half is split again into four creating 56 plaiting strips on each side of the basket and 112 in total. Viewing one side of the basket maker would have 56 plaiting strips, the 28 strips on the left form the dextrals and the 28 from the right the dextrals.
Accession number: 2019.68.841 Last Update: 5 Nov 2025
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