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1887.1.690

Basket. Dark brown coiled basket with flat, circular bottom and flexible sides. There is a short plaited handle attached to loops on the rim. [MOBB [OPS move] 16/11/2016]

1887.1.690

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Collection type
Object
Description
Basket. Dark brown coiled basket with flat, circular bottom and flexible sides. There is a short plaited handle attached to loops on the rim. [MOBB [OPS move] 16/11/2016]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1876
Date collected
?1872 - 1876
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1886
Materials and processes
Material Plant Fibre, Process Basketry, Process Coiled
Dimensions
Width: max 167 mm, Length: max 222 mm, Height: max 142 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1887.1.690
Research and responses

In the George Rolleston archive (Ashmolean Museum) there is a hand-written list of objects presented by H.N. Moseley to the Natural History Museum Oxford in October 1876, which may mention this object: "Fuegian basket work straits of Magellan". See a copy of this list in the RDF. [AS 13/03/2012]

Search terms: Basketry, Basket

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