Circular tray of coiled basketry with a bundle foundation sewn with simple non-interlocking stitches which pierce the stitches of the previous row on the inner surface.

Collection type: Object
Description: Circular tray of coiled basketry with a bundle foundation sewn with simple non-interlocking stitches which pierce the stitches of the previous row on the inner surface.
Geographical reference: Chile
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Chile; Rio Loa Quillagua
Person: Field collector Mrs Jones; PRM source Mrs Jones
Date / Period: Date made: 1000 - 1470 Date made: Regional Development Period
Date collected: By 1933
Acquisition information: Donated: 1933
Materials and processes: Process Coiled, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Diameter 266 mm, Height 33 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1933.24.34
Associated publications: Illustrated in black and white as figure 151 on page 143 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: ‘Chile, possibly from Arica. Bowl of coiled basketry on a ring base. Coiled rod foundation, sewn with simple non-interlocking stitches. The design motif, in light tan on a dark brown ground, is repeated three and a half times. The design resembles textile motifs of the Regional Development Period in the north of Chile. H: 114 mm; dia: 162 mm. Purchased from J.T. Hooper, 1929. 1929.89.12’ [MJD 16/01/2013] Pusch, S. 1988. A Grave group from Quillagua, Northern Chile. Unpublished undergraduate dissertation, Institute of Archaeology, UCL. On file at PRM, RDF for 1933.24. [Dan Hicks 27/09/2012]

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