Basket

Museum number:
7-5438
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070005438
Alternate number:
94 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2391
Description:
Sepetic or krosnica (small basket) Basket, woven plain weave, made of hazelwood splints. Shape roughly square with handle on 1 side at top of a natural twig. Height to handle top - 14cm. Used chiefly by women, who have greater need in household. Used especially to collect and take wild blueberries to market. Sometimes used for eggs, and less often for other small items.
Donor:
University Appropriation and William G. Lockwood
Collection place:
Western Balkans
Verbatim coll. place:
Yugoslavia, Bosnia, a village near Bugojno
Culture or time period:
Serbs
Collector:
William G. Lockwood
Collection date:
7/22/1967
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1968
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Loans:
S1970-1971 #147: University of Washington (June 23, 1971–October 8, 1971)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 7-5438, described as Sepetic or krosnica (small basket) Basket, woven plain weave, made of hazelwood splints. Shape roughly square with handle on 1 side at top of a natural twig. Height to handle top - 14cm. Used chiefly by women, who have greater need in household. Used especially to collect and take wild blueberries to market. Sometimes used for eggs, and less often for other small items.

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