A woven basket. It is lightweight, thus, ideal for mountain work where it was used for gathering fuki, butterbur, takenoko, bamboo shoots, zenmai, fiddlehead fern tips and warabi, bracken root. It was durable enough to last 2 to 3 years in daily use.
Donor:
Dai Williams, Estate of Karin Nelson, and Karin Nelson
Collection place:
Osa, Okayama Prefecture, San'yo region
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Maker or artist:
Tomiharu Takigawa
Collector:
Dai Williams
Collection date:
1996
Materials:
Cotton (textile) (cotton thread, wefts), Linden (wood) (braided linden bast, 2 cords), and Linden (wood) (linden bast, single weft at the base for the rim core, carrying cord and loops)
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— circumference 84 centimeters, whole and parts— height 37 centimeters, whole and parts— diameter 84 centimeters, whole and parts— weight 354 grams, whole and parts— thickness 5 millimeters, whole and parts— length 90 centimeters, whole and parts— width 35 centimeters, whole and parts— diameter 2.5 centimeters, and whole and parts— thickness 1 millimeters
Comment:
cattail is a rush and grows wild in marshy soil but which can be cultivated from root stock.