Round basket

Title

Round basket

Description

Flat, round woven basket with star-shaped weaving patterns in black and red color at the base of the basket

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 (Coast)

Physical Dimensions

10 x 36,2 x 32,7 cm

Materials

Plant fiber, colorant

Collecting Institution

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln

Inventory Number

RJM 33069
(Convolute no.: RJM 1917/01)

Curatorial notes

A sketch of this or a similar star pattern can be found in Tauern's notebook (p. 13), where he refers to them as "star weavings on the large flat baskets" (original: "Sternflechtereien an den großen flachen Körben").

Collection

Citation

Unknown , “Round 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/148.

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