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1895.22.175

Circular basket with flat base and string work design. [CW [OPS move] 22/11/2016]

1895.22.175

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Collection type
Object
Description
Circular basket with flat base and string work design. [CW [OPS move] 22/11/2016]
Long description
Circular basket with flat base and string work design. The design is woven up the sides of the basket in two panels which are knotted at the mouth and extend into two plaited handles. [CW [OPS move] 22/11/2016]
Geographical reference
Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands
New Georgia
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1894
Date collected
1893 - 1894
Acquisition information
Donated: 1895
Materials and processes
Material Plant Fibre, Material String, Process Basketry
Dimensions
Width: max 240 mm, Length: max 340 mm, Height: max 175 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1895.22.175
Research and responses

For an account of Somerville's collection from the Solomon Islands, see 'The H. B. T. Somerville Collection of Artefacts from the Solomon Islands in the Pitt Rivers Museum’, by Deborah Waite, in The General’s Gift: A Celebration of the Pitt Rivers Museum Centenary, 1884–1984 (JASO Occasional Papers, no. 3), edited by B. A. L. Cranstone and Steven Seidenberg (Oxford: JASO, 1884), pp. 41–52. (Copy in RDF: Collectors: Somerville.) [JC 24 2 2007]

For an account of Somerville's collecting in the Solomon Islands, see 'Notes and Queries, Science, and “Curios”: Lieutenant Boyle Somerville’s Ethnographic Collecting in the Solomon Islands, 1893–1895’, by Deborah Waite, in JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Vol. XXXI, no. 3 (Michaelmas 2000), pp. 277-308. (Copy in RDF: Collectors: Somerville.) [JC 24 2 2007]

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