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1965.1.27.1

Small square basket. Twill technique base, stitched coil centre, outside has decorative stitching. For the lid see [1965.1.27 .2] [RM [OPS move] 7/12/2016]

1965.1.27.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Small square basket. Twill technique base, stitched coil centre, outside has decorative stitching. For the lid see [1965.1.27 .2] [RM [OPS move] 7/12/2016]
Long description
Basket with lid. Twill technique top and base, stitched coil centre, outside has decorative stitching. Lid overlaps body and rests on a ledge. Rectangular at base and top, of lid, circular in centre.
Person
Field collector Richard Edward Dennett
PRM source Folk-Lore Society
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1895
Date collected
By 1895
Acquisition information
Donated: 1965
Materials and processes
Material Plant Fibre, Process Basketry, Process Twill, Process Stitched, Process Coiled
Dimensions
Height: max 89 mm total, Diameter: max 108 mm total, Height: max 75 mm, Diameter: max 98 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1965.1.27.1 Other numbers: D.1900.104b
Associated publications
For a consideration of the evidence for concluding that the Congo material in the Folklore Society donation (i.e. collection 1965.1) was collected by Richard Edward Dennett in the 1890s and given by him to the Folklore Society in or around 1895, see 'Hidden Charms: Writing On, Around, and About a Congo Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Sally Ayres, in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 25 (2012), pp. 55-63. (Photocopy in RDF.) [JC 18 4 2013] For a consideration of the evidence for concluding that the Congo material in the Folklore Society donation (i.e. collection 1965.1) was collected by Richard Edward Dennett in the 1890s and given by him to the Folklore Society in or around 1895, see pages 12 (note 23), 29-30, 183 (note 185), 241-244, 308, of 'Hidden Histories and Multiple Meanings: The Richard Dennett Collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter', by Sara Craig Ayres (Plymouth: Pymouth University, Ph.D. thesis, 2012). (Printouts of relevant pages in RDF.) [JC 7 8 2013]

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