Basket
This is a conical shaped woven straw basket. The base is made from interwoven leaf stems. Although the exact provenance has not been determined it resembles those baskets used in the Shan States of east Burma for holding cooked rice. It likely dates to the early part of the 20th century. References to this type of object can be found in ‘Burmese Crafts Past and Present’ (Fraser-Lu 1994: 295-97)
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 9/1945/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Containers
- Collection Area Region
- SE
- Material
- strawleaf stems
- Common Name
- basket
- Simple Name
- basket
- Production Country
- Burma
- Production Year High
- 1945
