Sirih basket

Title

Sirih basket

Description

Square sirih basket with lid, woven with natural, black and red colored fiber in geometrical forms

Creator

Unknown

Rights

© Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln

Provenance

Acquired from the collector and donated to the museum by the association "Verein zur Förderung des Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums" on June 26 1917

Place of Creation

Misool (Higland)

Physical Dimensions

11,2 x 16,8 x 11,7 cm

Collecting Institution

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln

Inventory Number

RJM 32975
(Convolute no.: RJM 1917/01)

Curatorial notes

A sketch of the lid's weaving pattern can be found in Tauern's notebook (p. 51)

Collection

Citation

Unknown , “Sirih basket,” The Mailopu Archive - Markus Mailopu and the II. Freiburg Moluccan Expedition, accessed May 6, 2025, https://www.mailopu.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/omeka/items/show/146.

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