Card/Transcription No.: 357-1

357. ROUND BASKET (SMALL SIZE) 1

POSITION: -
Cast among miscellanea below threshold of doorway of chamber
(see photo 1137)

DIMENSIONS: -
Diam. 19.0; H. 14.5, cents

CONTENTS: -
Uncertain - spilled on floor.

DESCRIPTION:
Although the system of construction of this basket and its
allied specimens (Nos. 422 and 589, A) is the same as in all
the other larger baskets (see Nos. 388, 440 A, 616 and 589),
the materials employed are different.
It is neatly made of 'skains' of small kind and interwoven
with a fine material like grass (?halfa or alfa) which is now
of a reddish-brown hue and has a distinct polished surface. It
is adorned with a pattern <> which is formed by interweaving
dyed grass with the natural coloured material - the colour now
black, which suggests it was originally a dark purple.