Accession No

1962.1 A-D


Description

Salt Basket; Raw material - Salt basket in process of manufacture. (a) Partly made salt basket from bark of dongo (mangrove); (b) Single shoot of dongo partly split to reveal inside bark; (c) Strips of inside bark of dongo; (d) Bark, mangrove (dongo).


Place

Oceania; Polynesia; Fiji; Ra; Drau Ni Ivi


Period


Source

Roth, George Kingsley [collector and donor]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

1962.1 A-D


Cultural Affliation


Material

Bark; Plant; Leaf


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (CMS Context)
Collected by: Roth.G.K in 1957.
Event Date 6/6/1988
Author: maa


Description (CMS Description)
Salt basket in process of manufacture. (a) Partly made salt basket from bark of dongo (mangrove); (b) Single shoot of dongo partly split to reveal inside bark; (c) Strips of inside bark of dongo; (d) Bark, mangrove (dongo).
Event Date 6/6/1988
Author: maa


Context (CMS Context)
No D found - 2 C found.
Event Date 3/7/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau


Context (CMS Context)
A large cream label attached to the object reads [handwritten in pencil:] 'Drauni-ivi RA. Sep 57. Salt basket (tiritiri) partly plaited [1 word illegible]' on one side and '(ready to receive the hardened (tava) salt) made of shorts of dogo (inside bark)' on the other. '62.1 a' added in black ink. Another large cream label attached to another part of the object reads [handwritten in pencil:] 'Single shoot of dogo, partly split to reveal inside bark used for salt basket' on one side and 'Drauni-ivi, RA. Sep 57' on the other side. Another large cream label attached to another part of the object reads [handwritten in pencil:] 'Strips of inside bark of dogo as used for salt baskets. Drauni-ivi RA. Sep. 57 c'. Another large cream label attached to another part of the object reads [handwritten in brown ink:] 'Horizontal + vertical elements + partly split strips of tiri dina for salt basket. Lomawai N +N. Oct. 56.' and [added in black pen:] '62.1 c'.
Event Date 3/7/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau


Description (CMS Description)
Large salt basket (a) formed of a coconut palm leaf frame, in the process of being made. The fibre are un-plaited at the top. Along with strips of raw material (b & c).
Event Date 3/7/2013
Author: maa


FM:80168

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