The Solomon Island Basket
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Article from the journal Man (1910) by W. H. R. Rivers and Mrs. Hingston Quiggin describing how women on Simbo (Eddystone Island) in the Solomon Islands make plaited baskets from split coconut-palm leaf. It explains the preparation of the leaf, making the upper rim, the body and contraction, and the turning of the basket inside out, then the filling in of the base that produces the patch-like bottom. The authors argue the patch results from the fineness of the strands rather than a need for strength. One plate with line diagrams and photographs illustrates the stages, and native technical terms are given. The scan also ends with the start of an unrelated short piece by Sir Herbert Risley on India and anthropology.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1910
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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