Table
- Museum number:
- 5-16863
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016863
- Alternate number:
- 36 (previous number (donor's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4729
- Description:
- basketry eating table; round, flat top with raised edge. leather strips interwoven for decoration. integral stand slightly conical. woven of cane.
- Donor:
- Dorothy Shack
- Collection place:
- Ethiopia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- East Africa, Ethiopia, Gurage
- Collector:
- Dorothy Shack and William A. Shack
- Materials:
- Leather
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Tables (support furniture)
- Function:
- 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
- Accession date:
- May 22, 2002
- Context of use:
- used for special occasions. normally food is seved on leaf or ensete (false banana).
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 67 centimeters and height 15 centimeters
- Images:
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