Decorative burlap panel
- Museum number:
- 5-16727
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016727
- Alternate number:
- 516727
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- burlap panel decorated with seed pod halves or small gourd halves sewn in a pattern with raffia "thread". inside of each pod is white painted.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Western Africa
- Verbatim coll. place:
- W. Africa
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Materials:
- Burlap (seed or gourd halves) and Raffia (fiber)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Gourds (plant components)
- Function:
- 4.0 Use not specified (Structures and Furnishings)
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Context of use:
- Unknown
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- width 45 centimeters and length 88 centimeters
- Images:
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