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basket

human history
  • Description

    Basket

    Made from pandanus dried palm leaf. Woven with coil weave technique. The basket is lidded, with a circular opening, no neck, sloping shoulders, and a body that tapers to a circular base. The lid sits on the opening, there is a slight convexity with disk shape knob on top. The exterior is naturally coloured palm leaf, interior has green and purple designs with natural coloured palm leaf, designs of lines and triangles

  • Place
    [Southeast Asia]/Asia
  • Accession Number
    1995.167.1
  • Accession Date
    10 Jan 1996
  • Other Id

    55104 (ethnology)

  • Department

    World

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