Basket

Museum number:
5-1421a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21051421a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.1119
Description:
Basket with lid, coiled, decorated with leather strips. Called tabába in Bisharîa. Comparable in details of techniques and materials to #21-56 of Oakland Public Museum, collected at Khartoum. See also Harvard African Studies vol. 2, pp 194-196, 2 plates Bisharîa baskets.
Donor:
Mrs. L. B. Mackey
Collection place:
Khartoum, Khartoum state, Sudan
Verbatim coll. place:
attrib. to Sudan, vicinity of Khartoum, specifically the Bisharin people
Culture or time period:
Bisharin
Collector:
Louise W. Martin
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1953
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 5-1421a,b, described as Basket with lid, coiled, decorated with leather strips. Called tabába in Bisharîa. Comparable in details of techniques and materials to #21-56 of Oakland Public Museum, collected at Khartoum. See also Harvard African Studies vol. 2, pp 194-196, 2 plates Bisharîa baskets.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 5-1421a,b, described as Basket with lid, coiled, decorated with leather strips. Called tabába in Bisharîa. Comparable in details of techniques and materials to #21-56 of Oakland Public Museum, collected at Khartoum. See also Harvard African Studies vol. 2, pp 194-196, 2 plates Bisharîa baskets.

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