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Object Number 46-77-30/6731
Display Title Basket, cane and textile
Descriptions
Object Description Basket with cover made of bamboo with red, green, yellow and blue yarn woven around bamboo: Semi-circular basket with hinged lid, constructed of two thin layers of split canes laid in opposite directions and lashed together. Outer surface decorated with repeats of rayed face worked with camelid yarns: red, purple, blue, yellow, white (all s-plied) wrapped around individual canes before being lashed down. Edges of basket are protected by strips of fine 2-2 plainweave cotton (s-paired) colored with red pigment.
Inventory Description Organic, woven basket, cane and textile, hinged lid, canes wrapped in polychrome
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Woven Fiber
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / Ica Region / Nazca Province / Nazca
Materials Cane, Cotton
Dimensions Overall: 25.5 x 20.5 x 10 cm (10 1/16 x 8 1/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 46-77-30/6731

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