Basket

Museum number:
5-16998
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
EC-21 (temporary number)
Accession number:
Acc.4787
Description:
Round, woven basket with woven foot. Finely woven upper portion is of natural grass or reed, accented by a black center roundel, 2 blue and 2 magenta " marks, and 4 side-by-side segments of magenta, blue and natural along rim. Base is of the same woven natural fiber, but of much coarser weave. 1980s.
Donor:
Elizabeth Colson
Collection place:
Ethiopia
Collector:
Elizabeth Colson
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
September 9, 2011
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
diameter 15.7 centimeters and height 5.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 5-16998, described as Round, woven basket with woven foot. Finely woven upper portion is of natural grass or reed, accented by a black center roundel, 2 blue and 2 magenta " marks, and 4 side-by-side segments of magenta, blue and natural along rim. Base is of the same woven natural fiber, but of much coarser weave. 1980s.

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