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Basket
Artist:
Samoa
Date: pre- 1893
Medium: Palm fiber
Classification: Containers
Credit Line: Gift of Carrie Ormsbee
Object number: 1931.1.16
DescriptionPlaited palm, leaflets left attached to half the splint ribs, then alternate ribs are pulled backwards to be plaited. Ends knotted together and slid under a rib.
Minute baskets were called such because it was common practice for samoans to make such baskets in front of tourists in one inute.
Minute baskets were called such because it was common practice for samoans to make such baskets in front of tourists in one inute.
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