Basket

Museum number:

5-226

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Accession number:

Acc.334

Object count:

2

Description:

Basket and Lid: Braided Leather Covering: Fringe: To carry food on camels

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Khartoum, Khartoum state, Sudan

Verbatim coll. place:

attrib. 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:

1908

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Dimensions:

diameter 17 centimeters and depth 23 centimeters

Comment:

comparable to #21-56 of Oakland Public Museum, from Khartoum

Loans:

S1979-1980 #18: American Federation of Arts (October 25, 1979–September 25, 1981)

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