- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Basketry box lid, chequer woven. For the basket see 1961.6.23 .1, and tray 1961.6.23 .3 [BH [OPS Move] 14/12/2016]
- Long description
- Basketry box lid, chequer woven. The exterior have been overlaid with a finer weave, decorated with diamonds. The chequer weave design has been created by natural and dyed dark brown and red sections. For the basket please refer to [1961.6.23 .1], and tray [1961.6.23 .3] [BH [OPS Move] 14/12/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- PRM source Frank Norman Howes
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1874?, uncertain
- Date collected
- ?1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1961
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Leaf, Material Pigment, Process Decorated, Process Split, Process Woven, Process Basketry, Process Dyed
- Dimensions
- Height: max 60 mm, Width: max 205 mm, Length: max 286 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1961.6.23.2
- Research and responses
Phoenix sylvestris is the wild date. [Encyclopædia Britannica Online] [CF 24/8/2000]
1961.6.23.2
Basketry box lid, chequer woven. For the basket see 1961.6.23 .1, and tray 1961.6.23 .3 [BH [OPS Move] 14/12/2016]
1961.6.23.2
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