Basket

Museum number:
5-17042
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
EC-101 (temporary number)
Accession number:
Acc.4787
Description:
Round basket with wide wooden (bamboo) rim and bamboo stabilizing bands (2 inside, one outside) overlapping and/or below the rim.. Basket is herringbone weave. 4.5cm rim is attached to the basket with woven raffia segments 3.0 to 4.3 cm wide, separated by blank spaces 2.0 to 3.5cm wide. Where the rim overlaps a woven, saw tooth band 11.5cm long joins the ends. 1972.
Donor:
Elizabeth Colson
Collection place:
Zambia
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Zambia, Eastern Province.
Collector:
Elizabeth Colson
Materials:
Bamboo (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
September 9, 2011
Context of use:
For food.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 9.2 centimeters and diameter 18.2 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 5-17042, described as Round basket with wide wooden (bamboo) rim and bamboo stabilizing bands (2 inside, one outside) overlapping and/or below the rim.. Basket is herringbone weave. 4.5cm rim is attached to the basket with woven raffia segments 3.0 to 4.3 cm wide, separated by blank spaces 2.0 to 3.5cm wide. Where the rim overlaps a woven, saw tooth band 11.5cm long joins the ends. 1972.

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