Basket
- Museum number:
- 9-11119a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210911119a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 353 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2696
- Description:
- Basket representing elephant; "siki" grass, dyed and woven cover: 55 cm length; 23 cm width body: 23.5 cm length; 15.5 cm width
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund
- Collection place:
- Bihar, India
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India, Bihar
- Culture or time period:
- Indian
- Collector:
- Renaldo "Ronald" Maduro
- Collection date:
- January 1970
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Baskets (containers)
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- November 11, 1970
- Context of use:
- Used and made anytime by men and women for storage, decoration; Made by men.women
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- body— width 15.5 centimeters, cover— width 23 centimeters, cover— length 55 centimeters, and body— length 23.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-