Item X 37653 bathi | Basket. Milingimbi, Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. c.1930

Summary

This is a woman's basket with horizontal bands created by use of three stranded twining and red cloth stitched around the body of the basket.

Local Name

bathi

Physical Description

A twined conical basket made from pandanus with close weave and decorated with four horizontal rows of three-stranded twining. Remnants of four rows of red cotton cloth are stitched around the lower half of the basket. Remnants of the multistrand vegetable fibre string handle are attached to the rim of the basket at the back. The rim is stitched with vegetable fibre string using a blanket stitch.