Samoan Material Culture
Four-cornered baskets with round rims
Four-cornered baskets with round rims
Edge-Partington (10, vol. 1, Pl. 76, No. 5) figures a basket that is evidently four-cornered at the bottom and has a round rim with a single, arched handle. Turner (40, p. 275) also figures a basket that appears to be of this type. I saw none, so they have evidently gone out of fashion.
The introduction of wooden chests has displaced the use of the tanga basket and the modern development of coiled work has extinguished any chance the model rectangular and four-cornered types may have had of surviving for trade purposes.