Basket
- Museum number:
- 5-16503
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016503
- Alternate number:
- B-1872 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- basket/ tray: woven reed or grass, shallow; natural, red and brown with reed wrapped form rim.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Materials:
- Reed
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Baskets (containers)
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Context of use:
- Used for winnowing seeds (?)
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 40 centimeters and height 7.5 centimeters
- Images:
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