lid
- Museum number
- Af1944,04.310
- Description
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Conical lid made of vegetable fibre.
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.50 centimetres
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Width: 10.80 centimetres
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Depth: 10.60 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Acquisition notes
- Af1944,04.297 to 314 are all baskets acquired by Beasley on 10 August 1928. They stylistically belong together, and all are recorded as coming fom West Uganda. No.307 (qv) adds 'Urambo' and gives a date of 1868, which may apply to the entire series.
(nb Urambo is the southern part of the western side of Lake Victoria, and is now in Tanzania; it was then adjacent to Buganda being the northern part on the western side.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1944,04.310