basket
- Museum number
- Oc1930,0204.5
- Description
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Basket made of grass.
- Production date
- 1930 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 42 centimetres
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Width: 22.50 centimetres
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Depth: 10.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Eth.Doc.907. Ethnic group "Brinkan" not identified. Register script unclear; transcribed as "Brinkan" by CDMS staff.
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Extract from letter from Litchfield to Curator, British Museum 9 May 1929:
The bag that holds the articles was made of the stiff grass that grows near billabongs, and came from a member of the Brinkan tribe, though I do nto think that the style of bsket-making is confined to that tribe alone.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1930,0204.5