dilly bag (bag (land transport: human powered)); baskets

Small, beehive-shaped dilly bag constructed by coiling vegetable fibres and wrapping them, one coil onto the previous. The bag has a finely rolled suspension lop attached in four places and also contains a small bundle of the leaf strips from which it has been made.
label: old exhibition label that is printed in white on red card it reads " Dilly Bag in coiled work. Australia"

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