Work basket
- Museum number:
- 16-14998
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21160014998
- Alternate number:
- 13 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2927
- Description:
- Work basket ('"siveta"); split reed woven into basket, rim is reinforced by bundle of reeds on with fiber strip; 24.7 cm length, 25 cm width, 4.9 cm deep
- Donor:
- Allen W. Johnson, Orna R. Johnson, and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Shimaa village, Rio Kompiroshiato, Montaña, Peru
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Peru
- Culture or time period:
- Machiguenga
- Maker or artist:
- Juana Nigenki
- Collector:
- Allen W. Johnson and Orna R. Johnson
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.4 Transportation
- Accession date:
- 1973
- Context of use:
- Used for gathering or working with manioc; kuri palm leaf; these baskets can be covered by putting another basket in top, sewing edges together.
- Department:
- South America (except Ancient Peru)
- Images:
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