DepartmentAsia
Basket
NameBasket, food carrying bowl
CultureKalinga
Place madePhilippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
MediumRattan, wood or bamboo
DimensionsOverall: 8 7/16 x 18 1/2 x 18 7/8 in. (21.5 x 47 x 48 cm)
Credit LineGift of Clare Brett Smith
Object numberA.2012.3.25
DescriptionDark stained bowl has split bamboo rim wrapped with cane splints. At the bottom, the bowl is attached to a bent-wood base of a four ray star-like form. The basket is woven with a four-part star pattern at bottom, the sides in an overlapping spiral up to about 1-1/2" from the rim, where they coallesce to a horizontal plain weave.
