- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Beginnings of braid for a basket, with unfinished end. [CW [OPS Move] 9/1/2017]
- Long description
- Description added by [RJ 24/2/2003] - Start of braid, one end finished and the other unfinished with the fronds fanning outwards.
- Date / Period
- Date made: 20/02/1986
- Date collected
- 20 February 1986
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 2003
- Materials and processes
- Material Palm Leaf Plant, Process Braided, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Height: max 55 mm, Width: max 160 mm, Length: max 750 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2003.10.125 Other numbers: Field collector's catalogue number: Basketry 183
- Research and responses
More information on the braiding of date palm leaves - see record 2003.10.8 [RJ 21/1/2003]
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