Basket

Museum number:
11-44099
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Accession number:
Acc.4767
Description:
grass carrying basket; conical carrying basket (miniaturized for tourist trade) woven of yellow and natural colored grass in repeating bands. tapers to rounded point at one end. upper edge finished with twine sewn with a blanket stitch around edge and double cords for carrying.
Donor:
Eileen M. Carol
Collection place:
Australia
Verbatim coll. place:
Oceania; Australia; Aboriginal, Djimarda, Burada
Culture or time period:
Aboriginal Australians
Collector:
Eileen M. Carol
Collection date:
1983
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 15, 2008
Context of use:
carrying materials on back
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
height 22 centimeters and diameter 14 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 11-44099, described as grass carrying basket; conical carrying basket (miniaturized for tourist trade) woven of yellow and natural colored grass in repeating bands. tapers to rounded point at one end. upper edge finished with twine sewn with a blanket stitch around edge and double cords for carrying.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 11-44099, described as grass carrying basket; conical carrying basket (miniaturized for tourist trade) woven of yellow and natural colored grass in repeating bands. tapers to rounded point at one end. upper edge finished with twine sewn with a blanket stitch around edge and double cords for carrying.

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