- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Large round basket, braided and stitched. Natural palm fronds. Flat base.
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 2003
- Date collected
- By 2003
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 2003
- Materials and processes
- Material Palm Leaf Plant, Process Braided, Process Stitched, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 433 mm, Height: max 189 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2003.10.36 Other numbers: Field collector's catalogue number: Basketry 66
- Research and responses
More information on the braiding of date palm leaves - see record 2003.10.8 [RJ 17/1/2003]
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