- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Basket work bag with cord. [MOBB [OPS move] 28/11/2016]
- Long description
- Basket work bag with cord. Basket of trapezoidal shape with wider bottom and narrower rim. The lid, which is the same shape in reverse (narrow rim and wider top) is attached to the basket by means of a twisted plant fibre cord, which allows the lid to slide up and down and acts as a carrying strap. [MOBB [OPS move] 28/11/2016]
- Person
- Field collector Ernest Guy Clowes
- PRM source Ipswich Museum
- PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1947
- Date collected
- By 1947
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material String, Material Plant Fibre, Process Basketry, Process Woven, Process Twisted, Process Twill
- Dimensions
- Height: max 319 mm total, Height: max 38 mm total, Width: max 174 mm total, Width: max 171 mm basket, Width: max 149 mm lid, Length: max 114 mm basket, Length: max 67 mm lid
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.1.921 Other numbers: R.1947.111.18
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