basket
- Museum number
- Af,+.5845.a-c
- Description
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Oblong basket (a) and lid (b) made of plaited strips of wood and cane. String with acorn tied around basket. Contents of basket (c): selection of cotton (?) cloth charms and ornaments including a brass pennanular ring; shells; various seeds, pods and nuts; gourd pieces; acorns; samples of camwood (?); plant samples; bead fragments; lizard skin fragments.
- Production date
- 1873 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 11 centimetres (a+b)
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Height: 8.50 centimetres (a)
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Height: 4.80 centimetres (b)
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Width: 17.50 centimetres (a)
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Width: 16.70 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 11.60 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 11.50 centimetres (b)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1892
- Acquisition notes
- Af,+.5843 to 5851 were all purchased from the Christy Fund on 24 September 1892. All come from the collection of the explorer Wilhelm Junker, and are accompanied by short descriptions in German. They were all made in the lower Congo (probably Republic of Congo rather than Angola), an area that he seems only to have visited in 1873.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,+.5845.a-c
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1892C2.5845a-b (old CDMS nos.)
