- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Small decorated basket chequerwoven from strips of palm fibre, with circular mouth and square base [RTS 20/9/2005].
- Long description
- Basket consisting of an everted circular mouth on a deep body with straight sides flaring down to a square base with pointed feet at each corner. The rim has been made from a bundle of narrow fibre strips, bent into a loop, and overbound by the vertical warp of the basketry body. The body consists of broad strips of a yellow palm fibre (Pantone 7508C), woven vertically into a simple checkweave of over-1, under-1 design, with the strips being worked from the rim downwards. The horizontal weft strips are narrower than those used in the warp, and have been made from a more pinkish material (Pantone 727C). In addition, a series of pinkish brown dyed strips (Pantone 4705 and 4715C) have been worked into the design, in a pattern consisting of a single strip running down the body and across the base, where it bisects a double strip running in the opposite direction. With the pattern of the weave, this produces a chequered effect. The basket is complete, with slight wear to the underside of the feet. It has a weight of 89.5 grams, and is 128 mm high, with a rim diameter of 228 by 220 mm, a rim thickness of 5.5 mm, and a base that is 123 mm long and 120 mm wide. The palm strips have an average width of 12 (warp) and 7 mm (weft) [RTS 20/9/2005].
- Cultural groups
- Moru Misa
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1979
- Date collected
- 5 February 1979
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1979
- Materials and processes
- Material Palm Fibre Plant, Process Basketry, Process Chequer Woven, Process Decorated, Process Dyed
- Dimensions
- Height: max 128 mm, Diameter: max 228 mm, Width: max 123 mm base, Weight 89.5 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1979.20.10 Other numbers: Langton Collection 23
- Research and responses
This basket has been woven using a similar form and technique to that seen on 1979.20.4 (known as kobiga or korega), 1979.20.7 (a type known as kole kotokoworo, and a smaller version of the form seen in this example) and 1979.20.31 (a larger variant) [RTS 20/9/2005].
1979.20.10
Small decorated basket chequerwoven from strips of palm fibre, with circular mouth and square base [RTS 20/9/2005].
1979.20.10
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