Basket
P1842
From: Australia | South Australia | Cooper's Creek (Australia)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | P1842 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Australia | South Australia | Cooper's Creek (Australia) |
| Period | Late Colonial Australia Period |
| Date Made | 1850-1900 CE |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Plant Fiber |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | An ovel shaped basket made of raffia. The basket was made using the coil technique. The raffia is thickly coiled to form the body of the basket and held by thinner raffia ropes going in a vertical direction. “Made under the direction of Lutheran Missionaries.” (Collector’s Object List) |
| Height | 18 cm |
| Length | 32 cm |
| Width | 26 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of J. T. Huston, 1907 |
| Other Number | 48 - Other Number |
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