Basket

Museum number:

9-22899

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Alternate number:

Akebi 4 (original number, Collector's number)

Accession number:

Acc.4789

Object count:

1

Description:

A woven basket worn at the waist.

Donor:

Estate of Karin Nelson

Collection place:

Fukushima Prefecture, South Tohoku, Tohoku region

Verbatim coll. place:

Unknown but probably Fukushima Prefecture

Culture or time period:

Japanese

Collector:

Dai Williams

Collection date:

December 27, 1998

Materials:

Akebia vine, Cotton (textile) (cords), Rice straw (remnants of a cord), and Sedge (cords)

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— weight 88 grams, whole and parts— width 5.5 centimeters, whole and parts— volume 1950 cubicCentimeters, whole and parts— thickness 0.75 millimeters, whole and parts— width 20 centimeters, whole and parts— length 19 centimeters, whole and parts— thickness 0.75 millimeters, whole and parts— height 16 centimeters, whole and parts— height 6 millimeters, whole and parts— length 50 centimeters, and whole and parts— circumference 41 centimeters

Comment:

This a very unusual and finely made basket and is reminiscent of those (in other materials like bamboo) used by urban or middle class women as purses. This, in fact, might have been its purpose.

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