basket
- Museum number
- Oc1933,0403.57
- Description
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Basket,(jawun), bicornual, made of cane.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early) (before about 1905)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 24 centimetres
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Height: 30 centimetres
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Width: 33 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Register addition "Cairns district" Register addition "Malgrave".
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Rigid open baskets from the Queensland rainforest region are traditionally made by men. Their design and decoration varies according to how they were to be used. Men made smaller painted baskets to hold their belongings and ceremonial objects. Unpainted baskets were used to hold food, and men sometimes used them to carry babies.
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This object was one of a larger collection which the donor, Miss F M Walker, described as having been collected by her brother in north Queensland some ‘thirty years ago’. Without any direct information from Miss Walker’s brother, the registrar in 1933 recorded his opinion that the collection came from ‘?Malgrave, Cairns District’. It appears Malgrave was a misspelling of the locality Mulgrave, near Cairns.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2011 26 May-11 Sep, London, BM, G91, Baskets and Belonging: Indigenous Australian Histories
2015 23 Apr-2 Aug, London, BM, G35, Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation
- Acquisition date
- 1933
- Acquisition notes
- Register information: 'Collected by donor's brother 30 years ago.'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1933,0403.57