Treasure
Basket, gold mine Brindabella
Date Published
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: tool / device / utensil
: Mining (gold fields)
: Snowy Mountains
: Queanbeyan
: c.1860
: Mining (gold fields)
: Snowy Mountains
: Queanbeyan
: c.1860
Cane basket with cane handles, used for carrying light items. Found at an old goldmine at Brindabella, near Queanbeyan. It is unknown if this basket was used by Chinese miners, but it has been attributed to this by the museum. An example of association: gold mine + woven basket = Chinese.

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