MKB Baskets

Record metadata:

Type	Cultural Object (2014 Definition)
Title	IIc 6563
Keywords	Hexagonally shaped woven fibre lidded basket
Description	This large lidded basket was used to either store clothes (handwoven cloths - kola/rabi, M) or rice (usu era, M, foos,T). Rice was carried in large baskets to funerals as part of the social obligations. This basket is decorated with a pattern called 'running flower' (ate fu giria, M, ai funan halai, T). 'Bua kareke', M refers to the basket being colourful.
Creator of Object	Presumed Makasae people
Date Created	Pre August 1935
Place Created	Presumed Baguia Sub-district, Baucau District, Timor-Leste
Object Type	Basket
Dimensions	35.5 cm diametre 17 cm height
Use status in 2014	Used occasionally
Material	Palm fronds, akadiru, M, T (Borassus flabellier, L.) and synthetic dyes (oro' M, tinta, T).
Technique	Hand woven
Institution/Holder: object	Museum der Kulturen Basel
Collector	Dr Alfred Bühler
Date Collected	August 1935
Place Collected	Baguia Sub-district, Baucau District, Timor-Leste
File Copyright	Museum der Kulturen Basel. Photograph taken by Joanna Barrkman, 2014
MKB/Buehler object title	Deckelkorb, G [covered basket] Buakerk, M
Notes	Viewed and identified at community viewings at Alawa Kraik 5/8/14 and Larisula 16/8/14. Also identified by Sra Ana Maria Pinto, Nelu Dae, Alawa Kraik on 6/8/14 and Sra Joanna Fernandes, Bahatata, on 10/8/2014. People only occasionally make baskets in Baguia now. In 2014 informants commented that people do make decorative baskets now. They qualified this by saying that '...the quality of the basket depends on the ability of the maker, whether or not they can execute detailed patterns.'
Production status in 2014	Not made to this level of detail
Timorese Language Term/s	Bu’a bere, bua kareke, ke waka, bu’a soloko, M Luhu, luhu kabua, luhu makerik, T

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