Round cassava basket with pineapple pattern. [BH [OPS move] 18/11/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Round cassava basket with pineapple pattern. [BH [OPS move] 18/11/2016]
Long description: Round cassava basket. With an interior and exterior band of cane towards the rim. Above the cane the basket is undecorated. Below it however it is decorated with geometric lines and diamonds [pineapple pattern]. [BH [OPS move] 18/11/2016]
Geographical reference: Guyana
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Guyana; Mazaruni River
Cultural groups: Akawaio
Person: Field collector Audrey Butt Colson; PRM source Audrey Butt Colson
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1952
Date collected: 1951 - 1952
Acquisition information: Donated: 1954
Materials and processes: Material Plant Fibre, Material Cane Plant, Process Plaited, Process Twill, Process Basketry, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Height: max 119 mm, Diameter: max 338 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1954.2.12
Associated publications: Illustrated in black and white as figure 165 on page 152 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: ‘Guyana, Upper Mazaruni district, Akawaio. Round twill plaited cassava tray of reed with ‘pineapple’ pattern in black. For holding cassava bread a meals. Dia: 340 mm. Collected by Audrey Button Colson, 1951-52. 1954.2.12’ [MJD 16/01/2013]

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