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A short 1894 article by R. Etheridge Jr. describing an unusual cylindrical rush basket with a bell-shaped mouth, collected from the Alligator Rivers Tribe in the Northern Territory of South Australia. It gives dimensions, the stake-and-siding plaiting structure, the twisted-fibre rim, and the decoration in black bands, white pipe-clay and Indian red triangles. It compares the form with other Australian aboriginal baskets, and Plate XVII illustrates the basket together with a leonile and a musical instrument.