Work basket ("tsiveta"); split reed woven into basket, bound at reed-reinforced rim with fiber of another type, probably stripped bark; 29.5 cm length, 28 cm width, 7.6 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 and 1.5 Household
Accession date:
1973
Context of use:
used for gathering or working with cotton, kuri palm leaf; these baskets can be covered by putting another basket on top, sewing edges together;