basket
- Museum number
- Oc1855,1220.175
- Description
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Basket made of twined vegetable fibre, decorated with vertical bands of pigment in red and yellow.
- Production date
- 19thc (before 1855)
- Dimensions
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Height: 44.50 centimetres
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Width: 16.50 centimetres
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Depth: 13 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Description from Extracts from the British and Medieval Register 1757-1878, p.184:
175. Long stiff bag or basket painted red and yellow. L. 1 foot 5 inches. Made by the Natives of S. Australia.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1972-1982 23 Jun-28 Feb, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, The Aborigines of Australia
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
- 1855
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty through Sir John Liddell, C.B. (the Museum of Haslar Hospital)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1855,1220.175
