Basketry
- Title:
- Basketry
- Alternate Title:
- Craft
- Collection:
- Depicting the Sri Lankan Vernacular
- Set:
- Mimure
- Photographer:
- Staffeld, William
- Location:
- Mimure, Kandy District, Central Province, Sri Lanka
- Country:
- Sri Lanka
- ID Number:
- MCD_05164
- Accession Number:
- 7000456
- Call Number:
- B-Q5 Ranga 7.5 Bask 5-4
- File Name:
- MCD_05164.jpg
- Culture:
- Sinhala
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Subject:
- Mimure
baskets
weaving
craft - Description:
- Mimure basketry showing four different geometric patterns on the tattuwa basket. This basket with an inner lining of a leaf, usually a banana leaf is used as a plate for consuming a meal, commonly one of rice.
- Notes:
- Image and original data maintained by the Cornell University Library. This digital collection is a result of a long-term collaboration between Professor Bonnie G. MacDougall, Department of Architecture and Margaret N. Webster, Director of the George W. & Adelaide Knight Visual Resources Facility in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.
- Cite As:
- Bonnie and Robert MacDougall papers, #15-2-4397. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This item is protected by copyright, and the copyright holder is William Staffeld. The item was digitized by Cornell University Library from a variety of negatives, positives, and slides retained by the Estate of Bonnie MacDougall. Cornell is providing access to the item with permission from the rightsholder for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell welcomes additional information about the items in this collection, including any additional information regarding rights holders. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu with any such information or to request permission to use any images from this collection. For additional information about how you may use materials from Cornell University Library’s Digital Collections, review our Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio from Cornell University Library Collections (http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright).