This is a coiled burden basket decorated using an imbrication technique with black, brown, yellow, and ivory in stepped patterns. The basket is watertight for carrying. Condition good.

This is a conical shaped basket with a stepped flag design in brown on natural fiber colored background. The shells and feathers are fastened to the exterior and extend out from basket. Although called a puberty basket it is thought that this basket was not necessarily used for puberty ceremonial. At the time it was collected it was thought that ceremony no longer was being practiced so such baskets were no longer being made for traditional practice. While it may have been intended for such, there is no physical evidence that it was ever used to hold water, and it is more likely that it was made for sale, an aestheticized version of a traditional form.

The dye is green and red.

The raffia is natural. The dye is purple and green.

The raffia is natural. The dye is purple and green.

The cedar is slat. The cherry bark is dye and black.

Small, ovular, lidded basket with rows of light tan, brown and dark brown weaving.

Cone-shaped, footed brown basket woven with two dark brown circles and two sets of three dark brown triangles as design elements.

Pitt Rivers sent this object to Bethnal Green Museum for display, as part of the first batch of objects sent there, probably in 1874. This object was listed in the Delivery Catalogue as having been transferred from South Kensington Museum in 1884

item is from the Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection