Basket Making: Em Yung threads the copper wire through the bamboo weave, 1987

Basket Making: Em Yung threads the copper wire through the bamboo weave, 1987

1987

Em Yung is finishing the Kon Tang, a very tightly woven basket that uses the "three over, three under" formula, and can be used as a bowl or food carrier. Em Yung said that his wife would carry the noon meal to him out in the field with this type of basket.

Em Yung threads the copper wire through the bamboo weave. Basket Making, photograph 13 of 21, from Cambodian Traditional Crafts and Religious Ceremonies.

View the Basket Making group of photographs in order on the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/CambodianBasketMaking.

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