Oval basket of straw with carrying handle, bound with simmints of bent grass: British, Papa Westray, Orkney

Wickerwork wool basket, or crealagh, in the shape of a rugby ball, probably from Skye

Fish basket, shallow and rectangular with a wicker-covered bow handle and four spars below to act as a stand, used by Thurso fishwives

Oval silver cake basket with outward sloping pierced sides and a folding handle, by William Dempster, Edinburgh, 1757 - 1758, made for the 2nd Earl of Hopetoun

Circular basket of straw, bound with manilla twine and string: British, Orkney

Wemyss Ware epsom basket in monochrome green glazed earthenware, with wavy rim and loop handle, by Robert Heron and Son, Fife Pottery, Kirkcaldy, 1882 - 1885

Wemyss Ware oval basket with loop handle and wavy rim, hand painted with pink roses, by Robert Heron and Son, Fife Pottery, Kirkcaldy, c. 1883 - 1930

Basket of coiled grass fibre, circular and decorated with diagonal black stripes: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC

Basket-lid of coiled grass fibre, conical and decorated with diagonal black stripes : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC

Basket of coiled palm leaf : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC

Basket-lid of coiled palm leaf, conical : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC

Basket tray of willow: Korea, ca. 1840

Warrior's carrying basket, intended to hold trophy heads taken in raids, woven of strips of cane with a wide mesh, elliptical and narrowing towards the base, with the front covered with painted cloth and ornamented with two carved wooden figures: India, Assam, Konyak Naga

Basket of canework used by warriors to carry bamboo spikes or panjis, worn at the hip when not accompanied by the ceremonial tail (when it is worn at the small of the back), conical and open, with a loop of cane for suspension, and decorated with red and black goat hair: India, Assam, Naga

Basket of canework used by warriors to carry bamboo spikes or panjis, with ceremonial tail, worn at the small of the back (the basket is worn at the hip when not accompanied by the tail), consisting of a basket of canework with a cane loop above and a long rod at the bottom from which hangs a fringe of red and black human hair: India, Assam, Sumi Naga

Basket of canework used by warriors to carry bamboo spikes or panjis, worn on the hip when not accompanied by the ceremonial tail (when it is worn at the small of the back), conical, with a cane loop above and ornamented with a horizontal band of trimmed red dyed goat hair overlapping a fringe of black human hair: India, Assam, Sumi Naga