Description (CMS Description)
Basket, oblong and oval with cusped base.
Event Date 23/7/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Note about the series of baskets accessioned under 1918.213.31: 18 baskets + 1 harness were found with the number 1918.213.31. Only 10 (A, B, C, D, G, H, J, L, M, and N) had a specific letter attached to them. K is not a basket but a harness: it is unknown which basket this harness originally belonged to. In order to distinguish between the remaining 8 baskets, letters remaining from the A-Q sequence was attributed to the un-lettered baskets. These are NOT the original letters. Two additional letter (R and S) were created to accommodate the two remaining baskets that did not fit in the lettered sequence.
Event Date 1/7/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'Z. 3602' inscribed in black ink twice on one side of the basket and once on the harness. 'Z. 3602' inscribed on a small rectangular metal label. '1918.213.31[?]G' inscribed in white ink on a small rectangular metal label. A small rectangular cream label attached to the harness reads '1918.213 (31). Fiji Islands. Stanmore Colln. 1912'.
Event Date 1/7/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [handwritten in blue pen:] '1918 213 (31) MELANESIA FIJI. A number of baskets: oblong + oval with cusped base. There are 17 baskets. 10 have been given Z nos. (see over). G. A. M. Hamilton-Gordon. 2nd Baron Stanmore (See 1st card).' [stamped in red ink:] 'CUMAA 16 JUL 1987 TRANSCRIBED'. A small round red sticker pasted on the front of the card. The back of the card reads [handwritten in blue pen:] 'Z 3577; Z 3578; Z 3580; Z 3581; Z 3582; Z 3601; Z 3602; Z 3603; Z 4064; Z 4066'.
Catalogue card 2 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 3602 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Basket. A. H. Gordon circa 1875.' [added in blue pen:] '1918 213 (31).' [added in pencil:] '1918-213 (31) G'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '15/26'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 15'. [stamped in black ink:] 'CUMAA 23 JUL 1987 TRANSCRIBED'. A small round red sticker pasted on the card'.
Catalogue card 3 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z. 3602 Basket. A. H. Gordon circa 1875. Show Case number 15'. [added in pencil:] '1918-213-(31) G'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '15/26'.
Event Date 1/7/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Oval basket plaited from strips of natural colour and black-dyed coconut palm leaf. The inside of the rim is decorated with two length of 3-ply plaited coir, one in natural colour, the other dyed black. The weave of the basket forms a black and white criss-cross pattern. A harness of natural colour 3-ply plaited pandanus leaf is woven in and out of the basket on both sides. The end plaits are visible inside the basket, along the bottom.
Event Date 1/7/2013
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: 'Chiefs & Governors: Art and power in Fiji', Cambridge MAA, 7 June 2013 - 19 April 2014.
Event Date 25/4/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

Conservation ()
CON.2014.169 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa