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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, biku (?), accession number 9-22885, described as A woven bag of a very dense knit, with 5 sections of each side that have decorative elements. It was worn as a backpack.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, ejiko, accession number 9-22935, described as A woven basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket form, accession number 9-23067, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, fugo, accession number 9-22998, described as Woven flat based rice straw basket with cord.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, gamakoshigo, accession number 9-22877, described as A woven basket. It is lightweight, thus, ideal for mountain work where it was used for gathering fuki, butterbur, takenoko, bamboo shoots, zenmai, fiddlehead fern tips and warabi, bracken root. It was durable enough to last 2 to 3 years in daily use.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, gamatego, accession number 9-22878, described as A woven basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, hakego, accession number 9-22906, described as A woven basket. Only fragments of the carrying cords remain but it is obvious that it was worn on the back, in kubikake style, the cord crossing the shoulders and secured at the chest. Traces of a cord at the base of the basket suggest that it was also tied around the waist.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, hakego, accession number 9-22902, described as A woven basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, hakego, accession number 9-22968, described as A woven basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, hakego, accession number 9-22974, described as A woven basket worn on the back to collect wild mulberry leaves in the mountains. These were fed to silkworms which almost every farmhouse in this region raised until the end of WWII.

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