Basket, antsuku
- Museum number:
- 9-22981
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090022981
- Alternate number:
- Okin 4 (original number, Collector's number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4789
- Description:
- woven basket made from root
- Donor:
- Dai Williams, Estate of Karin Nelson, and Karin Nelson
- Collection place:
- Taketomi Island, Yaeyama Islands, Ryukyu Islands
- Culture or time period:
- Japanese
- Collector:
- Dai Williams
- Collection date:
- December 31, 1996
- Materials:
- Root (plant material) (a padanus that grows on the shores of taketomijima)
- 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— depth 9.5 centimeters, whole and parts— weight 184 grams, whole and parts— circumference 66 centimeters, whole and parts— weight 184 grams, whole and parts— height 20.5 centimeters, whole and parts— thickness 1.5 millimeters, whole and parts— width 23 centimeters, whole and parts— thickness 1.5 millimeters, base— width 9.5 centimeters, base— length 23 centimeters, and whole and parts— length 2 meters
- Comment:
- root is a padanus that grows on the shores of Taketomijima
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