Basket

Museum number:
11-44100
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4767
Description:
woven basket or bowl made from pandamas leaf is natural, orange and brown. base woven with 2 bands of natural and orange; side woven with natural then brown band and finishes with 2 rows of natural. basket foundation coils are wrapped rice woven, then joined to the next coil at specific points thus forming first quadrants then 1/8's then sixteenths, forming a sort of open work pattern.
Donor:
Eileen M. Carol
Collection place:
Australia
Verbatim coll. place:
Oceania, Australia, Aboriginal
Culture or time period:
Aboriginal Australians
Collector:
Eileen M. Carol
Collection date:
1984
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 15, 2008
Context of use:
decorative, made for tourist traffic.
Department:
Oceania
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 11-44100, described as woven basket or bowl made from pandamas leaf is natural, orange and brown. base woven with 2 bands of natural and orange; side woven with natural then brown band and finishes with 2 rows of natural. basket foundation coils are wrapped rice woven, then joined to the next coil at specific points thus forming first quadrants then 1/8's then sixteenths, forming a sort of open work pattern.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 11-44100, described as woven basket or bowl made from pandamas leaf is natural, orange and brown. base woven with 2 bands of natural and orange; side woven with natural then brown band and finishes with 2 rows of natural. basket foundation coils are wrapped rice woven, then joined to the next coil at specific points thus forming first quadrants then 1/8's then sixteenths, forming a sort of open work pattern.

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