Workman's Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Oct 1989
label: Collection Date
content: 1960 to 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Grace Burkholder
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Grace Burkholder
notes: label: Notes
content: Collector's notes: "I have observed men hauling wet concrete in baskets such as this while engaged in construction work. "Aramco World," July-Aug 1964, p. 26 [see copy in the accession file] shows a farm worker carrying freshly-cut vegetables in [a basket like this]."
label: Notes
content: Large basket, woven in 2/2 twill inside, and covered on the outside with unwoven palm-trunk fiber. Horizontal rows of large stitches with coarse twine secure fibers to the base. Two handles on each side, one thick rope, and the other rope covered in white cotton cloth.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Saudi Arabia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arab
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370093
label: USNM Number
content: E431986-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Height - Not Including Handles
content: 27.5 cm
label: Diameter
content: 40 cm