Basket Item Number: Ia36 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Cylindrical basket with a square base. Basket woven of narrow strips of dark brown and natural-coloured palm leaf in a geometric, horizontal banded pattern. The bands are dark brown with designs of natural colour that include the following from top to bottom: fragmented tilted squares, sideways L-shapes, fragmented tilted squares, fragmented tilted squares, sideways L-shapes with an extra extension in the opposite direction at the other end, and fragmented tilted squares. Inside is natural colour. Around the top edge, there is a strip of natural coloured bamboo bound with a narrow strip of red-brown bamboo coiling.
History Of Use
Container.
Item History
- Made in Cotabato, Philippines
- Owned by Republic of the Philippines (Board of Investments)
- Owned by Asian Centre U.B.C. Asian Centre before July 30, 1979
- Received from Asian Centre U.B.C. Asian Centre (Donor) on July 30, 1979
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- Ia36
- Type of Item
- basket
- Material
- palm leaf and bamboo grass
- Manufacturing Technique
- plaited
- Overall
- height 26.3 cm, width 17.5 cm, depth 17.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- T'Boli
- Previous Owner
- Republic of the Philippines (Board of Investments) and Asian Centre U.B.C. Asian Centre
- Received from
- Asian Centre U.B.C. Asian Centre (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Cotabato, Philippines
When
- Ownership Date
- before July 30, 1979
- Acquisition Date
- on July 30, 1979
Other
- Item Classes
- basketry
- Condition
- good
- Current Location
- Case 81
- Accession Number
- 0545/0010