Basketry bowl with stylised design along the sides, and undecorated base. [BH [OPS Move] 18/11/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Basketry bowl with stylised design along the sides, and undecorated base. [BH [OPS Move] 18/11/2016]
Long description: Decorated bowl of coiled basketry, bundle foundation sewn with simple non-interlocking stitches.
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Unknown
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source James Thomas Hooper
Date
Date collected: By 1930
Acquisition information: Purchased: 03/1930
Materials and processes: Material Plant Fibre, Process Coiled, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Height: max 85 mm, Diameter: max 374 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1930.73.14
Associated publications: Illustrated in black and white as figure 147 on page 136 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: ‘Northern Chile or Southern Peru. Basket with coiled bundle foundation sewn with simple non-interlocking stitches. Design on the walls in natural tan (used as an outline), red and very dark brown. H: 88 mm; dia: 380 mm. Purchased from J.T. Hooper, 1930. 1930.73.14’ [MJD 16/01/2013]

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