Basket Item Number: 3489/20 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Circular basketry plate, with a wide lip and small well. Base is flat and has a hole in its centre, visible from both sides. Plate is made of coils of rattan(?), secured together with plant fibre. Rim is entirely covered in plant fibre. Well and lip are separate pieces, bound together at the edges. Plant fibres throughout plate alternate between different shades of brown, creating horizontal stripe patterns.
Used as a plate.
Acquired by the donor in 1976-1978, when he lived and worked in Sabah, on the island of Borneo, as a volunteer with CUSO International.