- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Mat-work basket with plaited cords at each corner and pairs of very short plaited strands around the rim. [El.B 01/03/2010]
- Person
- Field collector Robert Henry Codrington
- Field collector Melanesian Mission
- PRM source Robert Henry Codrington
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1888
- Date collected
- By 1888
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1920
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Fibre, Process Basketry, Process Plaited
- Dimensions
- Height: max 111 mm, Width: max 304 mm, Length: max 421 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1920.100.262
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