Box with lid

Museum number:

5-11702a,b

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm210511702a@2cb

Alternate number:

B-1107 (previous number (Bascom’s number))

Accession number:

Acc.2819 and Acc.2916

Object count:

2

Description:

Box with lid; crescent shaped, stained dark brown, incised designs on lid and sides of box. Box and lid lid not labeled as "a" and "b.

Donor:

Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom

Collection place:

Africa

Verbatim coll. place:

Africa, Congo, Bakuba

Culture or time period:

Ba Kuba

Collector:

Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom

Collection date:

1964

Materials:

Wood (plant material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Boxes (containers)

Function:

5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)

Accession date:

1971 and December 15, 1972

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Dimensions:

depth 4.5 centimeters, length 20 centimeters, and width 6.5 centimeters

Comment:

PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A, V-18-10. Exhibited: Civic Arts Center, Walnut Creek 1965.

Loans:

S1975-1976 #20: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Larry Michalak (October 20, 1975–October 24, 1975)

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