E014946 Basket

Photograph by Australian Museum

Photograph by Australian Museum

Accession Number: E014946

Museum: Australian Museum, Sydney

Date Acquired: 1905

Collector: Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933)

Date Collected: 1898

Where from: Bloomfield River

Description: L600 x W225mm. Twined basket from natural fibre (probably black palm fibre from the epidermis). These baskets are called Kakan by the Kuku Yalanji people.

See: ‘Walter Edmund Roth’ authored by Maureen Fuary

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