Backpack basket, seio-kago

Museum number:

9-23050

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Alternate number:

32 (previous number, box number)

Accession number:

Acc.4789

Object count:

1

Description:

Backpack basket, or "seio-kago," woven from cypress bark ("hinoki"), originally collected in 1929 for the Attic Museum. The dealer Sunagawa-san said that it was from another dealer in Hotaka in northern Nagano Prefecture. It is knitted in the simplest "ichimatsu" design. Two "loops" made of a weft spanning 3 warps are in the third row of wefts from the rim.

Donor:

Dai Williams, Estate of Karin Nelson, and Karin Nelson

Collection place:

Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, Koshin'etsu region

Verbatim coll. place:

Hotaka, northern Nagano Prefecture

Culture or time period:

Japanese

Collector:

Dai Williams

Materials:

Cypress (wood) (cedar)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Knapsacks

Function:

1.2 Gathering

Accession date:

March 20, 2012

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

Dimensions:

whole— length 14 inches, whole— height 13 inches, whole— volume 11310 cubicCentimeters, whole— weight 752 grams, and whole— width 6 inches

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