- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Specimen of plaited coconut leaf fibre. [MOBB [OPS move] 15/12/2016]
- Long description
- Specimen of in glass topped box [SM 25/3/2008]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- PRM source Frank Norman Howes
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1961
- Date collected
- By 1961
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1961
- Materials and processes
- Material Coconut Leaf Plant, Process Split, Process Basketry, Process Plaited
- Dimensions
- Length: max 120 mm, Width: max 6 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1961.6.88.3
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