Coaster

Museum number:

5-16748d

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Alternate number:

516748

Description:

set of 4 woven grass coasters: natural, red, green, black, and yellow dyed grass. woven to form a 4 petaled rosette pattern border around a natural center disk.

Collection place:

Western Africa

Verbatim coll. place:

W. Africa

Collector:

Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Coasters (containers)

Function:

1.5 Household

Context of use:

Household

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)