Toy basket [.1] with lid [.2] with orange and brown stripes. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/3/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Toy basket [.1] with lid [.2] with orange and brown stripes. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/3/2005]
Geographical reference: Guatemala
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Guatemala
Cultural groups: Maya
Person: Field collector Harrison family; Field collector Harrison family nurse; PRM source E. L. Harrison; PRM source Marion Harrison
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1903
Date collected: 1880 - 1903
Acquisition information: Donated: 1951
Materials and processes: Material Reed Plant, Process Wicker Woven, Process Chequer Plaited, Process Bent, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Diameter: max 64 mm, Height: max 42 mm, Diameter: max 60 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1951.11.156.1 Accession number: 1951.11.156.2
Associated publications: Illustrated in black and white as figure 113 on page 97 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: ‘Guatemala, Maya. Two miniature cylindrical wicker baskets of split Carrizo reed with coloured weft stripes (aniline dyes). Bases and centres of lids begun by chequer plaiting. These were probably children’s toys: larger versions are used as storage baskets. Larger H: 60 mm; dia: 57 mm. Collected by Lt. Col. E.L. & Miss M. Harrison, 1880-1903. 1951.11.156-157’ [MJD 18/01/2013]

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