Basket
Basket Lid
50-49-1979
From: Philippine Islands | Luzon | Northern Luzon | Benguet
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 50-49-1979 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Philippine Islands | Luzon | Northern Luzon | Benguet |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Plant Fiber | Bamboo |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | Separate square-bottom of open erect twillwork. Inserted into base of bamboo attached with malay knots. Square-sided basket of erect stakes with 3 horizontal bands of wrapped work. Reenforced at mid-point with inner hoop of bamboo. Shoulder and lip reenforced with 8-strand braidwork. Top bamboo hoop covered with wrapped and braided work surmounted with bamboo split held with malay knots forming lip. Basket lid of oblique twillwork on bamboo hoop with Malay knots. Fits over body's "lip". |
| Height | 76 cm |
| Length | 32 cm |
| Width | 31 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Misses Elizabeth H. Metcalf and Sarah S. Metcalf, 1950 |
| Other Number | 3 - Other Number |
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