Basketry hat

Museum number:
5-14863
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050014863
Accession number:
Acc.4337
Description:
Food cover, woven: coiled basketry food cover made of split date palm fronds and leather; geometrical designs of orange, green, pink, gold and purple colored fronds decorate body; top smaller than bottom and has raised circular lip possibly for setting cover down once removed; brown leather strip wrapped around top and bottom; leather patch in center of top, some coiling worn down to fiber bundle, bottom leather strip also frayed in some spots. 36.5 cm bottom diameter.
Donor:
Kent Reed Weeks and Susan Weeks
Collection place:
Aswan, Upper Egypt
Verbatim coll. place:
Sudan; Nubia (purchased in Aswan)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Coiled weaving, and Hats
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
June 20, 1988
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Basketry hat, accession number 5-14863, described as Food cover, woven: coiled basketry food cover made of split date palm fronds and leather; geometrical designs of orange, green, pink, gold and purple colored fronds decorate body; top smaller than bottom and has raised circular lip possibly for setting cover down once removed; brown leather strip wrapped around top and bottom; leather patch in center of top, some coiling worn down to fiber bundle, bottom leather strip also frayed in some spots. 36.5 cm bottom diameter.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Basketry hat, accession number 5-14863, described as Food cover, woven: coiled basketry food cover made of split date palm fronds and leather; geometrical designs of orange, green, pink, gold and purple colored fronds decorate body; top smaller than bottom and has raised circular lip possibly for setting cover down once removed; brown leather strip wrapped around top and bottom; leather patch in center of top, some coiling worn down to fiber bundle, bottom leather strip also frayed in some spots. 36.5 cm bottom diameter.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Basketry hat, accession number 5-14863, described as Food cover, woven: coiled basketry food cover made of split date palm fronds and leather; geometrical designs of orange, green, pink, gold and purple colored fronds decorate body; top smaller than bottom and has raised circular lip possibly for setting cover down once removed; brown leather strip wrapped around top and bottom; leather patch in center of top, some coiling worn down to fiber bundle, bottom leather strip also frayed in some spots. 36.5 cm bottom diameter.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Basketry hat, accession number 5-14863, described as Food cover, woven: coiled basketry food cover made of split date palm fronds and leather; geometrical designs of orange, green, pink, gold and purple colored fronds decorate body; top smaller than bottom and has raised circular lip possibly for setting cover down once removed; brown leather strip wrapped around top and bottom; leather patch in center of top, some coiling worn down to fiber bundle, bottom leather strip also frayed in some spots. 36.5 cm bottom diameter.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry hat, accession number 5-14863, described as Food cover, woven: coiled basketry food cover made of split date palm fronds and leather; geometrical designs of orange, green, pink, gold and purple colored fronds decorate body; top smaller than bottom and has raised circular lip possibly for setting cover down once removed; brown leather strip wrapped around top and bottom; leather patch in center of top, some coiling worn down to fiber bundle, bottom leather strip also frayed in some spots. 36.5 cm bottom diameter.

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