A basket with a detachable lid. The basket is barrel-shaped with a handle. The handle and basket are made of light-coloured grass with dyed decoration. On the basket the decoration is a repeating motif of two diamonds on top of each other vertically. The handle has a dyed section in the middle. The lid is round and shallow and also made of light-coloured grass with dyed decoration in the form of a circle with diamonds emanating from the circle, this design resembles a sun pattern.
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