basketry side or serving table composed of a conical base to which a shallow, bowl-shaped, round, basket of very fine weave is attached. lower section is plain weave; upper "table" is fine weave decorated with bands and lozenges of magenta, blue and turquoise.
Donor:
Dorothy Shack
Collection place:
Ethiopia
Verbatim coll. place:
East Africa, Ethiopia, Gurage
Culture or time period:
Gurage
Collector:
Dorothy Shack and William A. Shack
Materials:
Reed
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Tables (support furniture)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
May 22, 2002
Context of use:
household, for serving food
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
diameter 33.7 centimeters and height 27.8 centimeters