dalia (Basket)

About this object

History of use

Used for storing and carrying grain to market (collector's notes).

Narrative

Received by Joy Inglis is Bihar.

Physical description

Model of grain basket. Thick band of green coloured grass is placed around outer and inner rim of basket and is secured by eight evenly spaced vertical loops. The outside of the basket is in the natural colour. The inside of the basket has both natural and pink striped designs in a herring-bone type pattern.