Carrying Basket
50-49-1856
From: Philippine Islands | Northern Luzon
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 50-49-1856 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Ifugao |
| Provenience | Philippine Islands | Northern Luzon |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Peel | Plant Fiber | Bark |
| Description | "383- basket for carrying dry rice on a journey. Notice crude bark shoulder straps. This is nto a shoulder basket. Purchases from a man who had first come 100 miles on foot hunting for work." Foot, shoulder and lid are wrapped single-coil work. Body is of twilled weave. Four strand braid forms carrying handle. |
| Height | 33 cm |
| Width | 19 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Misses Elizabeth H. Metcalf and Sarah S. Metcalf, 1950 |
| Other Number | 383 - Other Number |
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