basket

Catalog Number 114373
Literary Reference , 13839
Cultural Affiliation Ilongot
Continent Asia
Country Philippines
Region Luzon Island
Island Philippine Islands
Province Cagayan River
Materials vegetal material; palm leaf, bark, seed (Coix lacryma-jobi / Job's tears), cordage, worsted
Catalog Description Name: Basket. Of woven split palm leaf. Squarish, pliable body. Rim ornamented with stitchings of narrow split, dark bark, and with pendants of string of Job's tears and thin cordage wrapped with thin worsted thread. Tying string of twisted fiber cordage. Baskets fitted with small cords, which pass around the waist, are carried at the side or against one hip. In them the women carry seed rice at planting time, or sugar cane and the like when on the trail.