Carrying basket

Museum number:

11-1462

Permalink:

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Accession number:

Acc.572

Object count:

1

Description:

Cylindrical, curved bottomed, openwork twined basket with painted red designs, reenforced within, with fiber handle. Old type. Handle fitted across- foreshaft for carrying.

Donor:

Mrs. Guy Sawyer Dyer

Collection place:

Queensland, Australia

Culture or time period:

Aboriginal Australians

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Carrying baskets and Twined weaving

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1921

Department:

Oceania

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