A woven basket primarily used for carrying long-handled tools for mountain work; also served more general uses such as carrying wild vegetables or firewood collected on the way home from work.
Donor:
Dai Williams, Estate of Karin Nelson, and Karin Nelson
Collection place:
Tadami, Minamiaizu District, Fukushima Prefecture
Verbatim coll. place:
Tadami-cho, Fukushima-ken
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Collector:
Dai Williams
Collection date:
June 22, 1997
Materials:
Linden (wood) (wefts) and Rice straw (warps)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.2 Gathering
Accession date:
March 20, 2012
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole and parts— thickness 3 millimeters, whole and parts— depth 7 centimeters, whole and parts— thickness 2 millimeters, whole and parts— height 1 centimeters, whole and parts— height 29 centimeters, whole and parts— width 88 centimeters, whole and parts— circumference 175 centimeters, and whole and parts— weight 792 grams