basket;
container
- Museum number
- Af1955,05.270
- Description
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Register 1955:
Composite container, of a basket with lid, coil sewn in pink black and natural, with leather rim, base, closing and carrying straps.
- Production date
- 1906 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.40 centimetres
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Width: 17.60 centimetres
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Depth: 15.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1955:
A collection mainly from Ashanti, Gold Coast, but also from the rest of Gold Coast, and Nigeria.
HAUSA style.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1955
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1955:
[Collection] made by the donor’s father, F.N. Best, Esq., a managing director of a gold mine (? The Ofin River Mine), and later of the Naraguta Tin Mine in N.Nigeria. His visit to the Gold Coast may have been about 1898/1900, and to Nigeria about 1906/1907.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1955,05.270