basketry side table formed from a conical lower basket with open top to which a shallow-like round basket is attached. base basket decorated with a band with red and green segment; basket which forms table top decorated with center medallion of woven red and black and 3 bands of red and black (alternating weave) at rim.
Donor:
Dorothy Shack
Collection place:
Shewa province (historical region), Ethiopia
Verbatim coll. place:
East Africa, Ethiopia, Shoa Province, 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
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 24.1 centimeters and diameter 23 centimeters