Basket of palm leaf plant, plaited from palm leaflets while still attached to the mid-ribs.

Collection type: Object
Description: Basket of palm leaf plant, plaited from palm leaflets while still attached to the mid-ribs.
Geographical reference: Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands; Shortland Islands Alu
Person: Field collector George Brown; PRM source Trustees of the Bowes Museum; PRM source Bowes Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1908
Date collected: By 1908
Acquisition information: Exchanged: 1924
Materials and processes: Material Palm Leaf Plant, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Height: max 206 mm, Length: max 541 mm, Width: max 206 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1924.58.21 Other numbers: 251
Research and responses: The Reverend George Brown retired from the missionary service in 1908, so it may be assumed with fair certainty that all the items in his collection were obtained by then. No doubt it would be possible to establish more exact dates of collection for individual objects from the primary and secondary literature relating to him and his collection (see entry on Biographies database for more information). [JC 23 3 2001]
Shortland Islands in the northwestern Solomon Islands, just southeast of Bougainville. The group's two largest islands are Alu (or Shortland), and Fauro. [Encyclopaedia Britannica on line] [AP 8/9/2000]

Search terms: Basketry, Basket

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