basket
- Museum number
- Af1908,Ty.390.a
- Description
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Basket made of woven vegetable fibre; circular with deep rim bound with fibre, concave sides and square shaped foot.
- Production date
- 1900-1908 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 11.30 centimetres (a+b)
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Height: 6 centimetres (a)
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Height: 6.80 centimetres (b)
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Width: 15 centimetres (a)
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Width: 14.10 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 14.80 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 14 centimetres (b)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2011 8th Feb-22nd May, Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Basketry: Making Human Nature
- Condition
- Good
- Acquisition date
- 1908
- Acquisition notes
- Af1908,Ty.1 to 429 forms part of the Christy Collection and was purchased through the Christy Fund. The objects in this specific collection were acquired during Emil Torday's expedition to the Congo on behalf of the Musuem 1907-9. The registration of a later group of objects from the same expedition continued in the following year with the numbering Af1909,Ty.430 to 1067.
This first group from the 1907-9 expedition was brought to England by Norman Hardy (qv) when he returned to England in April 1908: it contains objects that Torday had collected between December 1907 and April 1908 in Batempa and Mokunji at the southern end of the Sankuru river; at the market in Lusambo downstream of the Samburu river; and at the village of Misumba (inland from Isaka). The works come mostly from the Batetela, Songye, Bushongo, Batwa, Bangongo and Bangendi peoples.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1908,Ty.390.a
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1908C7.390a (old CDMS no.)