- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Sleeping mat, with frilled edge. [BS [OPS Move] 29/6/2017]
- Long description
- Sleeping mat, with frilled edge. Woven from pandanus strips, the weave structure giving the impression of diagonal lines from the varying colours of the pandanus. There is a central seam which has large unsplit pandanus frill. [BS [OPS Move] 29/6/2017]
- Person
- Field collector W.G. Alexander
- Field collector William Gordon Alexander
- PRM source Agricultural Economics Research Institute
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1950
- Date collected
- By 1950
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1950
- Materials and processes
- Material Pandanus Plant, Process Woven, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 2100 x 1040 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1950.2.2
Search terms: Furniture Dwelling, Basketry, Mat
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