Basket, neko

Museum number:

9-22946

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Alternate number:

Wara 14 (original number, Collector's number)

Accession number:

Acc.4789

Description:

A woven basket.

Donor:

Dai Williams, Estate of Karin Nelson, and Karin Nelson

Collection place:

Iida, Nagano Prefecture, Koshin'etsu region

Verbatim coll. place:

Unknown but possibly Iida in Nagano Prefecture

Culture or time period:

Japanese

Collector:

Dai Williams

Collection date:

December 24, 1996

Materials:

Cotton (textile) (interwoven with rice straw to produce carrying cords) and Rice straw (rice straw dyed with kakishibu, the juice of persimmon, presumably to prevent the straw from absorbing moisture and rotting)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers)

Function:

1.2 Gathering

Accession date:

March 20, 2012

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

Dimensions:

depth 8.5 centimeters, circumference 64 centimeters, weight 934 grams, height 36.5 centimeters, volume 6350 cubicCentimeters, thickness 1 centimeters, width 5 centimeters, thickness 4 millimeters, width 30 centimeters, and thickness 1.2 centimeters

Comment:

p. 379

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