Basket
Developed from the common household basket (taga), this item was woven from the fala pandanus (Calophyllum inophyllum) to create a miniature basket for domestic use, possibly mimicking Western-styled handbags.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 129/1972/16
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Containers
- Collection Area Region
- POLYN
- Material
- vegetable fibrevegetable fibre
- Common Name
- basket
- Simple Name
- basket
- Production Country
- Samoa, Independent State of
- Production Year Low
- 1878
- Production Year High
- 1904
