- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Folded screen of palm leaf with talc plaques. [BS [OPS move] 26/7/2017]
- Long description
- Folding screen of palm leaf strips. Each end ornamented with woven chequer board of black strips. Broad band down side of plaited palm strip enclosing series of talc lozenge shaped plaques; also along top of each section.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Ipswich Museum
- PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1966
- Date collected
- By 1966
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material Palm Leaf Plant, Material Talc, Material Mica Stone, Process Woven, Process Plaited, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 60 mm folded, Width: max 100 mm folded, Length: max 1873 mm folded
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.1.1348
Search terms: Basketry, Toilet, Tool, Fan, Screen, Toilet Article
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