Coconut leaf basket

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Two sections of coconut leaf frond split longitudinally each with 10 leaves attached, each half leaf split into four creating 80 plaiting strips. For each leaf four strips are used as sinistrals and other four used as dextral plaiting strips. Purchased at Girl Guides Shop, Port Mresby, 1993.

Accession number: 944874 Last Update: 29 May 2024
Accession Number

2019.68.867

Other Id

93.78

Department

Pacific

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