Basket
- Museum number:
- 5-2039
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050002039
- Alternate number:
- 5-521 (associated catalog number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.1458
- Description:
- Hemispherical basket; coiled; red and black designs; leather sewing on rim and on base. Probably Nubian.
- Donor:
- Lawrence E. Dawson and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Sudan
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa attrib
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1961
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Comment:
- old tag says bought in Aden-1922. Typical of Edyptian Nubia from Aswan to Wadi Halfa, made by people directly on the Nile
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