- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Rectangular basketry bag. Woven bands of brown fibres run in four sets of four parallel lines to form the pattern. [RM [OPS move] 22/11/2016]
- Person
- Field collector Frederick Henry Drew
- Field collector Melanesian Mission
- PRM source Frederick Henry Drew
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1911
- Date collected
- By 1911
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1911
- Materials and processes
- Material Palm Leaf Plant, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Length: max 376 mm, Depth: max 26 mm, Width: max 177 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1911.54.44
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