Mad weave 'Anyam gila' basket - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99980 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 188.00 PANDANACEAE Pandanus sp. | Entry Book Number | 11.2017 | |
| Artefact Name | Mad weave 'Anyam gila' basket | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Malaysia | TDWG Region | Malaysia | ||
| Parts Held | Mad weave 'Anyam gila' basket | Geography Description | Central northern coast - Melanu | ||
| Uses | Mad weave 'Anyam gila' basketUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Susi Dunsmore | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 10/04/2017 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Susi Dunsmore | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | The basket is pictured on pg. 73 of 'Plaited Arts from the Borneo Rainforest' (chapter written by Susi Dunsmore) and labelled as having been made by Melanu - a coastal ethnic group of North Western Borneo. Anyam gila (mad weave baskets) are also made by M, alay people on NW coast. The pentagonal 'mad weave' technique is considered extremely technically challenging and it is said that the female prisoners of Singapore Gaol are made to weave 'anyam gila' basketsas a punishment (pg. 62 of same book). This bask, et is double-walled. | ||||