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box

human history
  • Other Name

    basket

  • Description

    Box, basket

    Made from palm leaf. A rectangular shape box with a fitted lid. Woven using plait technique. The palm leaf has been coloured red, and brown, and also left its natural colour. The interior of box is uncoloured palm leaf strips. The exterior is alternating strips of red and brown coloured palm leaf that have faded with thinner strips woven through creating a diamond pattern

  • Place
    India
  • Accession Date
    1870
  • Other Id

    11285 (ethnology)

    1285 (ethnology number minus first digit)

  • Department

    World

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