- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Basket, squared bottom with mostly straight (slightly rounded) sides and round top. [MOBB [OPS move] 16/11/2016]
- Long description
- Basket, squared bottom with mostly straight (slightly rounded) sides and round top. Brown materials used to create a lozenge shaped weave over horizontal weft. There is a natural vine handle bent and tied over the top, and a twisted cord tied around the basket just below the rim. [MOBB [OPS move] 16/11/2016]
- Cultural groups
- Wayana
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1963
- Date collected
- April - October 1963
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1964
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant, Material Yarn, Material Cane Plant, Process Openwork Woven, Process Basketry, Process Twisted, Process Tied
- Dimensions
- Height: max 199 mm, Diameter: max 211 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1964.2.40
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