Basket, pouch

Museum number:
5-15832
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015832
Alternate number:
8
Accession number:
Acc.4619
Description:
Purse; basketry body, red construction; round top, flat bottom; sides decorated with polychrome triangles; leather covered bottom; decorated leather tip, with twisted leather drawstrings; three thong tassels with cowrie shells at ends; bottom and top of basket decorated with sewn-on cowrie shells; height (body) 14 centimeters X diameters circa 19 centimeters.
Donor:
Ann Palmer
Collection place:
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Upper Volta; Ougadougou
Collection date:
1976
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
December 23, 1993
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, pouch, accession number 5-15832, described as Purse; basketry body, red construction; round top, flat bottom; sides decorated with polychrome triangles; leather covered bottom; decorated leather tip, with twisted leather drawstrings; three thong tassels with cowrie shells at ends; bottom and top of basket decorated with sewn-on cowrie shells; height (body) 14 centimeters X diameters circa 19 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, pouch, accession number 5-15832, described as Purse; basketry body, red construction; round top, flat bottom; sides decorated with polychrome triangles; leather covered bottom; decorated leather tip, with twisted leather drawstrings; three thong tassels with cowrie shells at ends; bottom and top of basket decorated with sewn-on cowrie shells; height (body) 14 centimeters X diameters circa 19 centimeters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, pouch, accession number 5-15832, described as Purse; basketry body, red construction; round top, flat bottom; sides decorated with polychrome triangles; leather covered bottom; decorated leather tip, with twisted leather drawstrings; three thong tassels with cowrie shells at ends; bottom and top of basket decorated with sewn-on cowrie shells; height (body) 14 centimeters X diameters circa 19 centimeters.

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