Material: Palm Leaf
Style:  Nyuh Kuning, Bali, , Indonesia
Size: Height 22 cm, Diameter 45 cm
Order Number: MHSABBB1

About 30-40 years.

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Material: Palm Leaf
Style:  Nyuh Kuning, Bali, Indonesia
Size: Height 31 cm, Diameter 23 cm (top) 15 cm (base)
Order Number: MHSABBB3

About 30-40 years.

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Material: Palm Leaf
Style:  Nyuh Kuning, Bali, Indonesia
Size: Height 28 cm, Diameter 33 cm (top) 22 cm (base)
Order Number: MHSABBB4

About 30-40 years.

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Material: Palm Leaf
Style:  Nyuh Kuning, Bali, Indonesia
Size: Height 29 cm, Diameter 20 cm (top) 15 cm (base)
Order Number: MHSABBB5

About 30-40 years.

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Material: Rattan
Style: Burma
Size: Height 8 cm, Length 19 cm, Width 9.5 cm
Order Number: MHSBAST6

About 70-80 years.

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Material: Rattan
Style: Burma
Size: Height 9 cm, Length 15.5 cm, Width 7 cm
Order Number: MHSBAST7

About 70-80 years.

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Material: Rattan
Style: Burma
Size: Height 7.5 cm, Length 13 cm, Width 6.5 cm
Order Number: MHSBAST8

About 70-80 years.

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Material: Rattan, metal handles, wood, lacquer
Style: Inle Lake, Shan State, Burma
Size: Height 35 cm, Diameter 45 cm
Order Number: MHSABBL4

The body is very fine and delicate basketry in a fancy diamond pattern called kyudayan gwet in Burmese.  The rim and foot are lacquered black. Although rare today, juxtaposing smooth lacquered surfaces with bare basketry is an old Burmese decorative technique. It was popular for large bamboo matting for the walls of houses.

After the First Anglo-Burmese War (1823–1826), Major Henry Burney was stationed at Ava as the British Resident of the East India Company at the Burmese Court of King Bagyidaw from 1829 to 1837. In May 1832 he wrote an essay ‘Some Account of the Lacquered or Japanned Ware of Ava’ in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He considered Shan boxes superior to those made in Bagan.

There is a similar example of basketry in Burma and the Art of Lacquer, Ralph Isaacs and T. Richard Blurton, River Books, 2000, page 208.

Early – mid 20th century.

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Material: Rattan
Style: Cambodia
Size: Height 9.5 cm, Diameter 6.5 cm
Order Number: MHSACCC1

The cage basket is for carrying crickets, jong reut. There are several species and jong reut dike is large and very dark brown. They are aggressive and kids put on cricket fights. Cricket fighting rarely causes injuries. It is also popular pastime in China and dates back more than 1,000 years to the Tang Dynasty.

The edible ones are jong reut doeng (coconut cricket). They are fried. Eating insects is generally healthier than meat. They are low-fat, rich in protein, fibre, iron, zinc, vitamin B12, omega-3, calcium and 9 essential amino-acids. And they produce almost 3,000 times fewer greenhouse emissions than red meat.

20th century.

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Material: Rattan
Style: Cambodia
Size: Height 9 cm, Diameter 6 cm
Order Number: MHSACCC2

The cage basket is for carrying crickets, jong reut. There are several species and jong reut dike is large and very dark brown. They are aggressive and kids put on cricket fights. Cricket fighting rarely causes injuries. It is also popular pastime in China and dates back more than 1,000 years to the Tang Dynasty.

The edible ones are jong reut doeng (coconut cricket). They are fried. Eating insects is generally healthier than meat. They are low-fat, rich in protein, fibre, iron, zinc, vitamin B12, omega-3, calcium and 9 essential amino-acids. And they produce almost 3,000 times fewer greenhouse emissions than red meat.

20th century.

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Material: Rattan, wood
Style:  Sumatra, Indonesia
Size: Height 45 cm,  72 cm (top of strap), Diameter 36 cm
Order Number: MHSASB34

Rattan is a tropical climbing palm, using long thorns to climb up other jungle plants, and reaching lengths of over 150 metres (490 feet) but only a few centimetres thick. It is probably the most popular basket making material. It is very strong.

The basket is for carrying food.

About 40-50 years.

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Material: Rattan
Style:  Kalimantan, Indonesia
Size: Height 24 cm, Diameter 31 cm
Order Number: MHSAKB1

Mid 20th century.

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Material: Rattan, Bamboo
Style:  Kalimantan, Indonesia
Size: Height 20 cm, Diameter 23 cm
Order Number: MHSAKB2

About 50-60 years.

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Material: Rattan, Bamboo
Style:  Kalimantan, Indonesia
Size: Height 48 cm, Diameter 30 cm (top), Base 17 cm x 17 cm
Order Number: MHSAKB3

About 40-50 years.

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Material: Palm Leaf
Style:  Kalimantan, Indonesia
Size: Height 22 cm,  32 cm (top of strap), Length 30 cm, Depth 27 cm
Order Number: MHSAKB4

About 40-50 years.

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Material: Palm Leaf
Style:  Kalimantan, Indonesia
Size: Height 27 cm,  63 cm (top of strap), Length 35 cm, Depth 29 cm
Order Number: MHSAKB5

About 40-50 years.

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Material: Palm Leaf
Style:  Kalimantan, Indonesia
Size: Height 22 cm,  36 cm (top of strap), Length 28 cm, Depth 24 cm
Order Number: MHSAKB6

About 40-50 years.

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Material: Hand Woven Rattan
Style: Ifugao, Philippines
Size: Height 14 cm, Length  62 cm, Width  60 cm
Order Number: APTWR1

This woven rattan winnowing tray is from the Ifugao people of the Luzon Cordillera Range of the Philippines. The Ifugao people live in Ifugao province. The province is one of the smallest provinces in the Philippines with an area of only 251,778 hectares (622,160 acres), or about 0.8% of the total Philippine land area. As of 1995, the population of the Ifugaos was 131,635.

Basketry was an essential part of daily life for the Ifugao for hundreds of years. They are famous  for their quality.

Ifugao farming is characterized by wet rice terraces.  They are famous for their Banaue Rice Terraces, which are one of the main tourist attractions in the country. The Spanish first described the Ifugao rice terraces in 1801. Ifugao culture revolves around rice, which is considered a prestige crop. There is an elaborate and complex array of rice culture feasts.

Ifugao baskets vary in size. Baskets are used for rice preparation, winnowing and storage of uncooked and cooked rice.

Winnowing Rice.

Low shallow trays (round or square) are used to toss pounded rice grains into the air, blowing chaff from heavier grains.

Both Ifugao men and women make baskets of bamboo, rattan, or a combination of the two.

The most common technique entails plaiting, although wickerwork, twining, and coiling are also used. Typically in plaiting, two elements are woven over and under each other at a right angle.

This tray was clearly used and has a great patina.

Map of the Philippines

There is a similar one in Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

Early – mid-20th century.

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Material: Hand Woven Rattan
Style: Ifugao, Philippines
Size: Height 8 cm, Length  59 cm, Width  59 cm
Order Number: APTWR2

This woven rattan winnowing tray is from the Ifugao people of the Luzon Cordillera Range of the Philippines. The Ifugao people live in Ifugao province. The province is one of the smallest provinces in the Philippines with an area of only 251,778 hectares (622,160 acres), or about 0.8% of the total Philippine land area. As of 1995, the population of the Ifugaos was 131,635.

Basketry was an essential part of daily life for the Ifugao for hundreds of years. They are famous  for their quality.

Ifugao farming is characterized by wet rice terraces.  They are famous for their Banaue Rice Terraces, which are one of the main tourist attractions in the country. The Spanish first described the Ifugao rice terraces in 1801. Ifugao culture revolves around rice, which is considered a prestige crop. There is an elaborate and complex array of rice culture feasts.

Ifugao baskets vary in size. Baskets are used for rice preparation, winnowing and storage of uncooked and cooked rice.

Winnowing Rice.

Low shallow trays (round or square) are used to toss pounded rice grains into the air, blowing chaff from heavier grains.

Both Ifugao men and women make baskets of bamboo, rattan, or a combination of the two.

The most common technique entails plaiting, although wickerwork, twining, and coiling are also used. Typically in plaiting, two elements are woven over and under each other at a right angle.

This tray was clearly used and has a great patina.

Map of the Philippines

There is a similar one in Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

Early – mid-20th century.

Please ask for the price (or make an offer).

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Material: Hand Woven Rattan
Style: Ifugao, Philippines
Size: Height 8 cm, Length  57 cm, Width  57 cm
Order Number: APTWR3

This woven rattan winnowing tray is from the Ifugao people of the Luzon Cordillera Range of the Philippines. The Ifugao people live in Ifugao province. The province is one of the smallest provinces in the Philippines with an area of only 251,778 hectares (622,160 acres), or about 0.8% of the total Philippine land area. As of 1995, the population of the Ifugaos was 131,635.

Basketry was an essential part of daily life for the Ifugao for hundreds of years. They are famous  for their quality.

Ifugao farming is characterized by wet rice terraces.  They are famous for their Banaue Rice Terraces, which are one of the main tourist attractions in the country. The Spanish first described the Ifugao rice terraces in 1801. Ifugao culture revolves around rice, which is considered a prestige crop. There is an elaborate and complex array of rice culture feasts.

Ifugao baskets vary in size. Baskets are used for rice preparation, winnowing and storage of uncooked and cooked rice.

Winnowing Rice.

Low shallow trays (round or square) are used to toss pounded rice grains into the air, blowing chaff from heavier grains.

Both Ifugao men and women make baskets of bamboo, rattan, or a combination of the two.

The most common technique entails plaiting, although wickerwork, twining, and coiling are also used. Typically in plaiting, two elements are woven over and under each other at a right angle.

This tray was clearly used and has a great patina.

Map of the Philippines

There is a similar one in Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

Early – mid-20th century.

Please ask for the price (or make an offer).

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