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basket

human history
  • Description

    Basket

    Made from grass and leather. A lidded bowl shape. Made with coil weave technique, woven from ropes of rolls of plaited grass fastened together. The lip of basket and rim of the lid are leather sewn on to basket. The lid top and basket bottom have sewn on patches of leather. A rope made from twisted fibre wrapped around basket to keep closed

  • Place
    Niger River/West Africa/Africa
  • Accession Date
    1879
  • Other Id

    11185 (ethnology)

  • Department

    World

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