basket
- Museum number
- Af1950,42.34
- Description
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Register 1950:
Grass plaited basket, dish shaped in black natural and rusty red.
- Dimensions
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Height: 6 centimetres
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Width: 26.50 centimetres
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Depth: 26 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1950:
Grass plaited basket, dish shaped in black natural & rusty red.
'?MADEIRA' (note).
The note was presumably attached to the basket. It was perhaps made and purchased in Madeira en route to or from Africa.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1950
- Acquisition notes
- Af1950,42.1 to 34 were purchased from Mrs I C Turnbull. They are recorded in the register as having been 'Collected between 1904 & 1914 by the vendor & her late husband, A M D Turnbull, senior commissioner in Tanganyika Territory.' This cannot be precise, as they were in Malawi between 1904-14 and in Tanganyika between 1916 and 1930. See the curatorial comment on Af1950,42.1.a.
Nos.1 to 21 are recorded in the Register as from Tanganyika; nos.22 to 28 are recorded as from Nyasaland, but with a question mark. Nos.29 to 34 have different records.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1950,42.34