Basket for carrying decoy bird (jungle cock) for use with the snares of 27.188. Bamboo basket with attached neck. The main part of the basket is cylindrical with one open end. The opposite end has a half cone shaped neck, tied with vegetable fibre to the basket, thus making this end of the basket narrower, presumably to prevent the fowl (whose head would protrude from the neck, from escaping. This neck section is open weave, made up of two circular hoops, one larger than the other. Both hoops are made from bamboo and wrapped in reed. The two hoops are attached to each other vertically and horizontally by bamboo strips.The main part of the basket is also formed from two hoops joined by bamboo strips which are interwoven with simple basket weave, but for an inch or so near the hoop at either end in double basket weave. A length of string for carrying the basket is attached to the end hoop of the main basket and the hoop at the inner edge of the 'neck'. Another piece of string is attached to the outer hoop of the neck and runs through the end of the main basket, but its function is not clear.
bird cage (container (hunting, fishing & trapping))
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