MKB Baskets

Record metadata:

Type	Cultural Object (2014 Definition)
Title	IIc 6564
Keywords	Hexagonally shaped woven fibre lidded basket
Description	This large lidded basket was used to store clothes (handwoven cloth kola/ rabi, M) or to store rice. Rice was carried to funerals and made as offerings to fulfill social obligations. This basket is decorated with the pattern known as 'ate fu giria', M, 'ai funan halai', T, running flowers. See IIc6563
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	29 cm diameter 15 cm high
Use status in 2014	Used occasionally
Material	Palm fronds, akadiru M,T, (Borassus flabellifer, 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: Deckelkorb für Esswaren mit Deckel mit stielförmigem Fortsatz, G [Basket lid: Lid basket for Food with lid stielförmigem extension]
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 standard of decoration
Timorese Language Term/s	Bu’a bere, bua kareke, ke waka, bu’a soloko, M Luhu, luhu makerik, T

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