Penja basket - medium size - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99439 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 199.00 CYPERACEAE Lepironia articulata | Entry Book Number | 9.2016 | |
| Artefact Name | Penja basket - medium size | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Madagascar | TDWG Region | Madagascar | ||
| Parts Held | Penja basket - medium size | Geography Description | Fenerive Est market | ||
| Uses | Penja basket - medium sizeUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Gardiner, Lauren | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 27/07/2016 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Gardiner, Lauren | Collector No | LGEB44 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 16/06/2016 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Stem is washed, flattened and dried in the sun, then woven by hand. This type of basket is used throughout the region for carrying everything from rice to charcoal to bananas. Can be more or less decorated than this item. Often two laden baskets are ca, rried at either end of a thick piece of bamboo. Lauren Gardiner, pers. comm. | ||||