This akeke is unusual, because it seems to be a combination of multiple patterns. There will be a little break from these for a while, but Dr. Bell is trying to get more samples from the Pitt-Rivers Museum.
The work does get a little repetitive, but it is for an exciting project called The Recovering Voices Initiative, which aims to document and preserve dying languages and technologies. These illustrations, along with some diagrams that I'm working on, will be made into a book. It will become a part of the Smithsonian archives, and will be made freely available to anybody in Papua New Guinea who is interested in making or studying these baskets.
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