Basket
Shuttles
P1475B
From: Sumatra | West Sumatra
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | P1475B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minangkebau |
| Provenience | Sumatra | West Sumatra |
| Date Made | 1901 |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Plant Material | Wood | Cotton |
| Description | Long narrow basket with braided loop at top (for hanging?). Inside, three bamboo shuttle cases, two with shuttles inside, one wound with natural cotton, the other with red. Two more shuttles without cases, one wound with natural, one with red thread; seven reed sticks (empty shuttles) and two fragments. Number P1475 on shuttle cases indicates that these objects go with loom P1475A. |
| Length | 36 cm |
| Width | 12.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of H. M. Hiller and Alfred C. Harrison Jr., 1901 |
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