Basket

Museum number:
5-16765
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
516756
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
coil woven basket; natural, red, green, and black in various bands including 1 patterned with alternating colored segments decorated with one or two diamond shapes in black and an alternate color. Conservation: Well-used, finished rims is breaking down, wear on base, dirty.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Western Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
W. Africa
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Materials:
Reed
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
min— height 12.5 centimeters, max— height 12.8 centimeters, and min— diameter 29.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 5-16765, described as coil woven basket; natural, red, green, and black in various bands including 1 patterned with alternating colored segments decorated with one or two diamond shapes in black and an alternate color. Conservation: Well-used, finished rims is breaking down, wear on base, dirty.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 5-16765, described as coil woven basket; natural, red, green, and black in various bands including 1 patterned with alternating colored segments decorated with one or two diamond shapes in black and an alternate color. Conservation: Well-used, finished rims is breaking down, wear on base, dirty.

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