woven basketry side table composed of a conical base to which a shallow round bowl shaped basket is attached forming the table top. upper basket is very finely woven and is undecorated, underside of top has red grass woven into 3 bands. base is woven with wide and narrow bands. wide bands decorated with red, blue and aqua segment of dyed reed or grass.
Donor:
Dorothy Shack
Collection place:
Ethiopia
Verbatim coll. place:
East Africa, Ethiopia, Gurage
Culture or time period:
Gurage
Collector:
Dorothy Shack and William A. Shack
Materials:
Reed
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
May 22, 2002
Context of use:
household; for serving snacks
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 20.3 centimeters and diameter 24.7 centimeters