Photograph by Australian Museum
Accession Number: E014946
Museum: Australian Museum, Sydney
Date Acquired: 1905
Collector: Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933)
Date Collected: 1898
Where from: Bloomfield River
Description: L600 x W225mm. Twined basket from natural fibre (probably black palm fibre from the epidermis). These baskets are called Kakan by the Kuku Yalanji people.
See: ‘Walter Edmund Roth’ authored by Maureen Fuary
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