Basket

Museum number:
5-160
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
101 (additional number, accession no.)
Accession number:
Acc.101
Description:
Basket: Leather-Covered: Deep Deep basket, leather covered, with decorative fringe - for carrying food on camels.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Khartoum, Khartoum state, Sudan
Verbatim coll. place:
attributed to Sudan, vicinity of Khartoum
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Leather
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
diameter 20 centimeters and depth 40 centimeters
Comment:
Comparable in details of technique and materials to #21-58 of Oakland Public Museum, collected at Khartoum
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 5-160, described as Basket: Leather-Covered: Deep Deep basket, leather covered, with decorative fringe - for carrying food on camels.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 5-160, described as Basket: Leather-Covered: Deep Deep basket, leather covered, with decorative fringe - for carrying food on camels.

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