A woven basket showing signs of wear at the base, suggesting that the maker and user would accept the fact that it would wear out before any other part of the basket
Donor:
Dai Williams, Estate of Karin Nelson, and Karin Nelson
Collection place:
Yamagata Prefecture, South Tohoku, Tohoku region
Verbatim coll. place:
Yamagata Prefecture, precise location unknown
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Collector:
Dai Williams
Collection date:
March 1, 1996
Materials:
Cattail (material)
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 2.5 millimeters, whole and parts— depth 5 millimeters, whole and parts— width 30 centimeters, whole and parts— thickness 8 millimeters, whole and parts— height 23 centimeters, whole and parts— circumference 62 centimeters, whole and parts— width 13 centimeters, and whole and parts— weight 200 grams