Basket and lid

Museum number:
5-13068a,b
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3242
Description:
Basket with conical lid; coiling on grass bundle foundation; straw color ground, purple, blue-green and red geometric designs; A) base: widens towards top; blue oilcloth around outside coil top and bottom; rim diameter 38.5 cm, height 21.5 cm; B) conical lid: upper part covered with blue oilcloth; metal carrying ring; imbricated encircling bands; height 49.5 cm, rim diameter 35 cm.
Donor:
Elizabeth McCown Langstroth
Collection place:
Morocco
Collector:
Beatrice McCown Madison
Collection date:
ca. 1960
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1976
Context of use:
Couscous basket—for serving and keeping insects away from couscous.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket and lid, accession number 5-13068a,b, described as Basket with conical lid; coiling on grass bundle foundation; straw color ground, purple, blue-green and red geometric designs; A) base: widens towards top; blue oilcloth around outside coil top and bottom; rim diameter 38.5 cm, height 21.5 cm; B) conical lid: upper part covered with blue oilcloth; metal carrying ring; imbricated encircling bands; height 49.5 cm, rim diameter 35 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket and lid, accession number 5-13068a,b, described as Basket with conical lid; coiling on grass bundle foundation; straw color ground, purple, blue-green and red geometric designs; A) base: widens towards top; blue oilcloth around outside coil top and bottom; rim diameter 38.5 cm, height 21.5 cm; B) conical lid: upper part covered with blue oilcloth; metal carrying ring; imbricated encircling bands; height 49.5 cm, rim diameter 35 cm.

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