Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for E 1902.128: 'Twenty one samples of different plaiting of bamboo, pandanus, banana, sugarcane + arrowroot leaves + grass'.
Event Date 1902
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
Note on catalogue card reads: "Only eight cards of four examples of plaiting found. 05/11/1987. Folklore Collection. A.C. Haddon?"
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Found together / assemblage)
E 1902.128 is formed of thirty two samples of ornamental plaiting, glued onto 8 cards (4 samples per card). Four cards [now E 1902.128.1-4] are dedicated to bamboo, one to sugar cane arrow [E 1902.128.5], one to stem of arrowroot [E 1902.128.6], one to bamboo & pandanus and bamboo & plantain [E 1902.128.7] and one to 'native grass', 'native grass' with plantain stalk & pandanus and bamboo [E 1902.128.8].
Event Date 27/2/2020
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
The original description referred to E 1902.128 as 21 samples. Given that the handwritting on the cards is that of Anatole von Hügel, it is likely that 21 samples came, and were cut and mounted on card by von Hügel himself turning the 21 samples into 32 parts mounted across 8 cards.
Event Date 27/2/2020
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Four lengths of plaited/woven 'native grass' (x2), 'native grass' with plantain (x1) & pandanus with bamboo (x1) showing different techniques and patterns, glued on card.
Event Date 27/2/2020
Author: Lucie Carreau