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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.

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1900.55.218

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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.
Person
Field collector Harry Stockdale
PRM source Robert Francis Wilkins
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]

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