- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- 218. Dilly basket, with raised bands, finely decorated with figures of men and conventional designs in white on red and black grounds.
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1891?, uncertain
- Date collected
- ?1891
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1900
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Fibre, Material Pigment, Process Decorated, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Length 260 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1900.55.218
- Research and responses
Note that Hardy and Stockdale travelled together in the Port Essington, Alligator River regions in 1891 [AP 8/3/2001]
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in black and white as figure 90 on page 67 of Australia in Oxford, edited by Howard Morphy and Elizabeth Edwards (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Monograph 4, 1988). [JC 1995] Reproduced in colour as figure 13 on page 25 of Aboriginal Art, by Howard Morphy (London: Phaidon, 1998). [JC 4 12 1998]
1900.55.218
218. Dilly basket, with raised bands, finely decorated with figures of men and conventional designs in white on red and black grounds.
On display
1900.55.218
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