Basket

Note: The following text is taken from a 19th-century collection catalog and, in its language and perspective, partially reflects colonial thought patterns. We present the text in its original version to make the collection's history transparent and promote a critical examination of the colonial legacy. Certain terms and formulations may be perceived as problematic today. A 2009 research project concluded that most descriptions are factually correct and still usable; only a few details were found to be inaccurate or incorrect. The results of this project were published in the following collection catalog: khm-wmw-tm-library.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1457155265"209. Small basket - "Baku bodo".A basket of this type, large, eight-sided. The basket itself also has a bowl-shaped rim, like the previous one. The basketry craftmanship in these baskets is extremely fine and artful and shows the admirable skills and industriousness and good taste of the natives. The lontar leaf which is used is extremely finely split, is colored red, brown and black and forms delicate, regular figures. "Translation of: Czurda, F. A. J. (1883). Catalog mit Erklärungen der Etnografischen Privatsammlung des Dr. F. A. J. Czurda in Postelberg (Böhmen). (p. 49-50). Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller