01. warrior basket | Photographer: | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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The basket and the carrying strap attached to the side are made of narrow bamboo strips. A bamboo framework tied on from the outside serves to stabilise the sides of the base. The bindings are also made of plant material. The back of the basket is stabilised by a palm leaf sheath. The front of the basket is decorated with a tuft of plant fibres, a bird's bellows and cowrie shells. The fibre tuft of plant leaves is attached at the bottom left. The bellows are applied diagonally to the basket so that the tips of the long contour feathers protrude over the lower right edge of the bag. Above the bellows is an intersecting band with cowrie shells attached.
