basket
- Museum number
- Oc1939,08.32
- Description
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Palm leaf basket. The leaf is folded up at each end with a wooden handle inserted and tied with strips of vegetable fibre. The ties are covered with white and yellow pigment and the exterior is coloured red.
- Production date
- 1900-1912 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 21 centimetres
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Width: 23 centimetres
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Depth: 12.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1939
Collected by H P Rogers, ornithologist, before 1914, in Australia.
Port Essington.
- 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
2015-2016 27 Nov-28 Mar, Canberra, National Museum of Australia, Encounters
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- Register reads, for collection Oc1939,08: Collected by H P Rogers, ornithologist, before 1914, in Australia. However inspection of the original correspondence from Mathews reveals that this should be J P Rogers, who was Mathews' ornithological collector in Northern Australia.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1939,08.32
