Basket

Museum number:
18-1189
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3564 (additional number, acc. number)
Accession number:
Acc.3564
Description:
Basket, man’s knapsack, plaited, with elaborate design flanked by an upper and lower band of triangles, all in black. Coiled plaque in base. Tall cylindrical shape. Attached plaited carrying straps. For use by men when traveling beyond village. In it are usually carried rice and tabacco, a spare waist cloth, a sleeping mat, sometimes a palm leaf rain mat, a roll of dried banana leaves for making cigarettes, and perhaps a cap for wearing in the house. Traded to several adjacent tribes. Made by women. Designs: [drawn symbol] = the snake that eats the fruit of the “bumut” tree. Outer borders of triangles = “tumpal.” Height 41 cm. Width 21.5 cm.
Donor:
Margery Anneberg and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Borneo, Indonesia
Culture or time period:
Indonesian and Punan people
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 18-1189, described as Basket, man’s knapsack, plaited, with elaborate design flanked by an upper and lower band of triangles, all in black. Coiled plaque in base. Tall cylindrical shape. Attached plaited carrying straps. For use by men when traveling beyond village. In it are usually carried rice and tabacco, a spare waist cloth, a sleeping mat, sometimes a palm leaf rain mat, a roll of dried banana leaves for making cigarettes, and perhaps a cap for wearing in the house. Traded to several adjacent tribes. Made by women. Designs: [drawn symbol] = the snake that eats the fruit of the “bumut” tree. Outer borders of triangles = “tumpal.” Height 41 cm. Width 21.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 18-1189, described as Basket, man’s knapsack, plaited, with elaborate design flanked by an upper and lower band of triangles, all in black. Coiled plaque in base. Tall cylindrical shape. Attached plaited carrying straps. For use by men when traveling beyond village. In it are usually carried rice and tabacco, a spare waist cloth, a sleeping mat, sometimes a palm leaf rain mat, a roll of dried banana leaves for making cigarettes, and perhaps a cap for wearing in the house. Traded to several adjacent tribes. Made by women. Designs: [drawn symbol] = the snake that eats the fruit of the “bumut” tree. Outer borders of triangles = “tumpal.” Height 41 cm. Width 21.5 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 18-1189, described as Basket, man’s knapsack, plaited, with elaborate design flanked by an upper and lower band of triangles, all in black. Coiled plaque in base. Tall cylindrical shape. Attached plaited carrying straps. For use by men when traveling beyond village. In it are usually carried rice and tabacco, a spare waist cloth, a sleeping mat, sometimes a palm leaf rain mat, a roll of dried banana leaves for making cigarettes, and perhaps a cap for wearing in the house. Traded to several adjacent tribes. Made by women. Designs: [drawn symbol] = the snake that eats the fruit of the “bumut” tree. Outer borders of triangles = “tumpal.” Height 41 cm. Width 21.5 cm.

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