- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Circular basket with lid. [BH [OPS Move] 18/11/2016]
- Long description
- Shallow circular basket with lid, fine open coil work, with designs of human and animal forms, in blue red and green on white ground. Plaited handles and fastening of string with cane toggle. Grass bundle foundation sewn with palm leaf in aniline dyes and natural colour. Space-coiled [BH [OPS Move] 18/11/2016]
- Cultural groups
- Otomí
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1939
- Date collected
- 1939
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1939
- Materials and processes
- Material Grass Fibre Plant, Material Palm Leaf Plant, Material Pigment, Process Coiled, Process Plaited, Process Basketry, Process Dyed
- Dimensions
- Height: max 61 mm, Diameter: max 135 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.36.1825 Other numbers: Blackwood ii 1758
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in colour as plate 10 on page 94 of Basketmakers Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets, edited by Linda Mowat, Howard Morphy and Penny Dransart (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University if Oxford, Mongraph 5, 1992). Caption reads: ‘Mexico, Toluca area, Otomí. Space coiled basket with grass bundle foundation sewn with palm leaf in aniline dyes and natural colour. Design in human and animal figures. Plaited handle and fastening of string with cane toggle. H: 55 mm; dia: 140 mm. Collected by Beatrice Blackwood, 1939. 1938.36.1825’ [MJD 18/01/2013]
1938.36.1825
Circular basket with lid. [BH [OPS Move] 18/11/2016]
1938.36.1825
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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