Basket, backpack

Museum number:
9-17152
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Accession number:
Acc.3934
Description:
Backpack basket. Deep with wide rim; flat, square bottom; plaited weave; base made of bent wood in “X” pattern; carrying straps are woven at rim and attached to bent twig which is strung through the base.
Donor:
Beth Harnex MacLafferty Blake
Collection place:
Vietnam
Verbatim coll. place:
Vietnam
Culture or time period:
Vietnamese
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Plaited weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
April 1, 1984
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, backpack, accession number 9-17152, described as Backpack basket. Deep with wide rim; flat, square bottom; plaited weave; base made of bent wood in “X” pattern; carrying straps are woven at rim and attached to bent twig which is strung through the base.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, backpack, accession number 9-17152, described as Backpack basket. Deep with wide rim; flat, square bottom; plaited weave; base made of bent wood in “X” pattern; carrying straps are woven at rim and attached to bent twig which is strung through the base.

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