Fruit or Shopping basket - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99901 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 188.00 PANDANACEAE Pandanus sp. | Entry Book Number | 31.2017 | |
| Artefact Name | Fruit or Shopping basket | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Australia | TDWG Region | Australia | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit or Shopping basket | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Fruit or Shopping basketUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Slocock, Martin | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 31/08/2017 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Slocock, Martin | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/09/1994 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Martin Slocock: Pandanus weaving is seasonal, the new shoots being collected during the wet season until the mid-dry season. The leaves are stripped, dried, dyed with natural vegetable dyes (roots, leaves and berries), dried again and then woven into bas, kets, mats and dilly bags. x0Dx0ADreamtime Art Gallery: Pandanus baskets are made by the Aboriginal women. The pandanus shoots are gathered from the tall [palm] when green and the centre piece is carefully extracted. This is split with a fingernail into s, everal lengths of fibre, bunches of which are spread in the sun to dry or are tied and hung on a tree branch. When they have faded from green to pale green or cream, they are ready to accept the dye. Occasionally, the fresh strips will be dyed when gree, n but in these cases the intensity of colour is lost. To obtain yellow, the freshly dug roots of the small bush Coelospermum reticulatum are scraped of their outer bark The root is pale yellow but the inner bark is chrome yellow. The bare roots and bri, ght yellow scrapings are immersed in the water to be used for dye. When dry, the bunch of Pandanus is placed in a billy (old tin can or cooking pot) and boiled with the dye material. The length of boiling will deepen the colour obtained. The dyed fibre, is then woven onto cane in intricate patterned designs. | ||||
| Determinations: | 84.01 RUBIACEAE Coelospermum reticulatum (F.Muell.) Benth. 188.00 PANDANACEAE Pandanus sp. | ||||