This carrying basket is a familiar Bidayuh weaving which comes in various sizes and patterns. Some are very decorative and only used for important functions or rituals.
Tambok is cylindrical in shape and supported with four vertical sticks. The Bidayuh carry their jungle produce to the market in this type of basket on their back, with a bark-cloth head strap over the forehead. Unlike the baskets made by other ethnic groups, the Bidayuh produce their tambok baskets by plaiting with vertical and horizontal strips of rattan, instead of with the diagonal ones as practised by the other groups.