Basket

Museum number:
18-772
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
2311 (additional number, acc. number)
Accession number:
Acc.2311
Description:
Basket; twill-plaited; of split bamboo or cane and rattan; four attached legs; red and black designs on straw color ground; red dye made by boiling rattan seeds in water and evaporating product until it has the consistency of a thick paste.
Donor:
Stuart C. Way
Collection place:
Borneo, Indonesia
Culture or time period:
Indonesian and Kanowit
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Plaited weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1967
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 18-772, described as Basket; twill-plaited; of split bamboo or cane and rattan; four attached legs; red and black designs on straw color ground; red dye made by boiling rattan seeds in water and evaporating product until it has the consistency of a thick paste.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 18-772, described as Basket; twill-plaited; of split bamboo or cane and rattan; four attached legs; red and black designs on straw color ground; red dye made by boiling rattan seeds in water and evaporating product until it has the consistency of a thick paste.

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