Basket

Museum number:
7-5506
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070005506
Alternate number:
Ef6-10 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2501
Description:
Twined basket, globular with flat base; twisted double handle; height with handle: 39 cm; basket formerly stiff, became flexible due to exhibit at UCLMA in 1969.
Donor:
University Appropriation and William G. Lockwood
Collection place:
Kosovo-Metohija, Serbia
Verbatim coll. place:
Yugoslavia, Kosovo-Metohija
Culture or time period:
Romani people
Collector:
William G. Lockwood
Collection date:
1967
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
1969
Context of use:
Shopping basket, etc.
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Comment:
Materials, techniques: twined with unpeeled willow shoots
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 7-5506, described as Twined basket, globular with flat base; twisted double handle; height with handle: 39 cm; basket formerly stiff, became flexible due to exhibit at UCLMA in 1969.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 7-5506, described as Twined basket, globular with flat base; twisted double handle; height with handle: 39 cm; basket formerly stiff, became flexible due to exhibit at UCLMA in 1969.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 7-5506, described as Twined basket, globular with flat base; twisted double handle; height with handle: 39 cm; basket formerly stiff, became flexible due to exhibit at UCLMA in 1969.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 7-5506, described as Twined basket, globular with flat base; twisted double handle; height with handle: 39 cm; basket formerly stiff, became flexible due to exhibit at UCLMA in 1969.

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