Wooden container and lid

Museum number:
5-1683a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B27 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1302
Description:
Wooden container, bottom and top, both with raised bottom; diameter: 7" 17.78cm, height: 10" 25.4cm For serving food. Carver said that the Chokwe food baskets, of similar shape, were made in imitation of this kind of wooden receptacle, insisting that baskets came later
Donor:
Igor Kopytoff and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Batchok (Chokwe)
Collector:
Igor Kopytoff
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1960
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Wooden container and lid, accession number 5-1683a,b, described as Wooden container, bottom and top, both with raised bottom; diameter: 7" 17.78cm, height: 10" 25.4cm For serving food. Carver said that the Chokwe food baskets, of similar shape, were made in imitation of this kind of wooden receptacle, insisting that baskets came later
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Wooden container and lid, accession number 5-1683a,b, described as Wooden container, bottom and top, both with raised bottom; diameter: 7" 17.78cm, height: 10" 25.4cm For serving food. Carver said that the Chokwe food baskets, of similar shape, were made in imitation of this kind of wooden receptacle, insisting that baskets came later

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