basket
- Museum number
- 2011,2013.3
- Description
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Basket made from pandanus fibre. Coiled, barrel-shaped basket with one handle and decorated in three horizontal stripes of orange, brown and green undyed fibre
- Production date
- 2010-2011
- Dimensions
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Height: 50.20 centimetres
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Width: 24.50 centimetres
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Depth: 23 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- In 1922 the missionary Gretta Matthews introduced the technique known as coiling to the women of Goulburn Island, Arnhem Land. She probably originally learned it from Aboriginal women in southern Australia. From this beginning, coiling spread rapidly across the north, as women taught the technique to their relatives in nearby communities. Coiling now co-exists with the traditional technique of twining.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2011
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre in March 2011, towards the 2011 British Museum exhibition 'Baskets and Belonging'.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2011,2013.3
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 3635V