A woven basket with cotton twisted in rope at handle worn at the waist when collecting acorns in the mountains in autumn. Once it was full it was emptied into a larger basket in which the crop was carried home.
Donor:
Estate of Karin Nelson
Collection place:
Hashikami, Sannohe District, Aomori Prefecture
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Collector:
Dai Williams
Collection date:
December 21, 1996
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Linden (wood)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.2 Gathering
Accession date:
March 20, 2012
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
whole and parts— height 3.5 centimeters, whole and parts— thickness 1.5 millimeters, whole and parts— circumference 24 centimeters, whole and parts— height 24 centimeters, whole and parts— thickness 1.5 millimeters, and whole and parts— weight 376 grams