Basket

Museum number:
18-1613
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21180001613
Accession number:
Acc.4506
Description:
Basket, reed, plaited, square; rectangular bottom; top and bottom edges rimmed with loose fiber; body decorated with red interweave to form diamond pattern; for holding cooked rice. This kapipe are produce in Sereale Village. Kapipe are used to provision field workers with midday meals. Field videos taken in Indonesia by Eric Crystal show the use of kapipe in the provisioning of field workers (constructing funerary structures). Field videos also show the fabrication of the kapipe by villagers. Kapipe are constructed by tuyu reeds.
Donor:
Eric Crystal and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Indonesia
Culture or time period:
Indonesian
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Plaited weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 18-1613, described as Basket, reed, plaited, square; rectangular bottom; top and bottom edges rimmed with loose fiber; body decorated with red interweave to form diamond pattern; for holding cooked rice. This kapipe are produce in Sereale Village. Kapipe are used to provision field workers with midday meals. Field videos taken in Indonesia by Eric Crystal show the use of kapipe in the provisioning of field workers (constructing funerary structures). Field videos also show the fabrication of the kapipe by villagers. Kapipe are constructed by tuyu reeds.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 18-1613, described as Basket, reed, plaited, square; rectangular bottom; top and bottom edges rimmed with loose fiber; body decorated with red interweave to form diamond pattern; for holding cooked rice. This kapipe are produce in Sereale Village. Kapipe are used to provision field workers with midday meals. Field videos taken in Indonesia by Eric Crystal show the use of kapipe in the provisioning of field workers (constructing funerary structures). Field videos also show the fabrication of the kapipe by villagers. Kapipe are constructed by tuyu reeds.

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