Basket with lid

Museum number:
5-225a-b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050225a@2db
Accession number:
Acc.334
Description:
Basket with Lid: Covering of Braided Leather with Fringes for carrying food on camels (a) basket (b) lid
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Khartoum, Khartoum state, Sudan
Verbatim coll. place:
attrib. to Sudan, vicinity of Khartoum
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Leather
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
depth 19 centimeters and diameter 13 centimeters
Comment:
comparable to #21-56 of Oakland Public Museum, from Khartoum; similar but smaller than 5-226 and 5-160
Loans:
S1966-1967 #14: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (October 20, 1966–January 20, 1967)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket with lid, accession number 5-225a-b, described as Basket with Lid: Covering of Braided Leather with Fringes for carrying food on camels (a) basket (b) lid
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket with lid, accession number 5-225a-b, described as Basket with Lid: Covering of Braided Leather with Fringes for carrying food on camels (a) basket (b) lid

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