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R14 :: Korgfat av palmblad – korgfat av plast

Object description

De här korgfaten kommer från byn Nata i norra Botswana. De är alla bundna med samma teknik, men några gjorda av palmblad och några av röd och grön plast. Korgarna samlades in i slutet av 1980-talet.

Norra Botswana drabbas ofta av torka. Apelsinerna och vitkålen man då tvingades importera, kom förpackade i plastnät, röda för apelsinsäckarna och gröna för vitkålen. Plastmaterialet användes till korgflätning och gav de traditionella korgarna ett nytt utseende.

Korgtillverkningen är ett sätt för byborna att dryga ut försörjningen. Uppköpsorganisationen Botswanacraft säljer fortfarande korgarna på världsmarknaden. Ju bättre Botswanacraft fungerar, ju finare produktkataloger organisationen gör, desto mer marknadsanpassade lär korgarna bli. De passar väl i en museibutik. Men blir det samtidigt inte allt tveksammare att ställa ut dem i ett etnografiskt museum när korgarna alltmer representerar köparnas smak och inte tillverkarnas?

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Korgfat av palmblad – korgfat av plast

Titel, engelska

Baskets of Palm Leaves – Baskets of Plastic

Beskrivning

Beskrivning - engelska

These baskets come from the village of Nata in the north of Botswana. They are all woven using the same technique but some are made of palm leaves and others from red and green plastic. They were acquired at the end of the 1980s.

The North of Botswana often suffers from drought. The oranges and cabbages, which then have to be imported, arrive packaged in plastic nets: red for the oranges and green for the cabbages. The plastic material is used for weaving, giving the traditional baskets a new appearance.

Basket-making is one way for the villagers to make ends meet. The buying organisation, Botswanacraft, still sells the baskets on the world market. The better things go for Botswanacraft, and the finer the organisation's product catalogues become, the more market-oriented the baskets will probably become. They're well suited to a museum shop. But at the same time, isn't it becoming increasingly dubious to exhibit them in an ethnographic museum when the baskets more and more represent the taste of the buyers and not of the makers?

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