Basket, kago
- Museum number:
- 9-23043
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090023043
- Accession number:
- Acc.4789
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Large basket, or "kago," woven from wild grapevine bark ("budo") and linden bast ("shina") with rice straw ("wara") cords.
- Donor:
- Estate of Karin Nelson
- Collection place:
- Yamagata Prefecture, South Tohoku, Tohoku region
- Culture or time period:
- Japanese
- Collector:
- Dai Williams
- Collection date:
- April 21, 1995
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Baskets (containers)
- Function:
- 1.2 Gathering
- Accession date:
- March 20, 2012
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Images:
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