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Object Type
Museum number: 2017,Q.255
Description: Basket, flat with straight bottom, made of strips of natural and dyed black pandanus leaf with a zig-zag rim and two twisted handles made of vegetable fibre.
Production ethnic group
Production date: early to mid 19thC (before 1883)
Production place: Made in: Rarotonga
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Rarotonga
Materials: fibre; pandanus leaf
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 40.50 centimetres; Width: 64 centimetres; Depth: 3 centimetres
Curator's comments: Tied on labels: Rarotonga basket/AF Gill Dup
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: late 19thC (Likely donated through Franks sometime between 1876 and 1893.)
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: 2017,Q.255
Conservation

Free entry