Basket
65-8-26
From: Caroline Islands | Nukuoro
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 65-8-26 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Caroline Islands | Nukuoro |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Palm Leaf |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | Coconut leaflet; a quickly woven basket which can be slung over the shoulder; so-called because the mythical person Sogo is said to have carried sand in a basket such as this and as the sand spilled it formed the islands of the Carolines. |
| Length | 21 cm |
| Width | 18 cm |
| Thickness | 7 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Vern Carroll, 1965 |
| Other Number | 37 - Other Number |
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