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)
Collector
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)
(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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