Get lifted by the stories of Sabah's humble baskets at this KL exhibition


The ‘Bakul: Everyday Baskets From Sabah’ exhibition at The Godown in KL features 70 traditional baskets from the collection of Sabahan author and collector Jennifer P. Linggi. Photo: The Star/Low Boon Tat

The Godown arts centre in Kuala Lumpur is sharing a bit of rustic Borneo with the urban masses through its current exhibition Bakul: Everyday Baskets From Sabah, featuring 70 traditional baskets from across Malaysia’s second largest region.

These baskets are from the collection of Sabahan author, curator and collector Jennifer P. Linggi, as depicted in her illustrated book, A Journal Of North Borneo’s Traditional Baskets, with its first edition published in 2017.

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