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basket

human history
  • Other Name

    basket

  • Description

    Bowl

    Made from dried palm leaf fibre and cane. made with a coil weave technique. The bowl is circular with slightly flared raised sides, and a shallow body. The palm leaf is coloured pink, purple, cream, and green and are woven to create zig-zag patterns through the body, the centre bottom of the bowl has rings of different colours

  • Place
    Somalia
  • Accession Number
    1955.108
  • Accession Date
    1955
  • Other Id

    34086 (ethnology)

  • Department

    World

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