basket
- Museum number
- Af1967,09.1.a-f
- Description
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Register 1967
A series of six baskets fitting inside each other, with geometric designs in black, cylindrical in shape with lids. The decorative patterns also include bands of red and yellow
- Production date
- 19thC (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 30.80 centimetres (a - basket + lid)
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Height: 26.80 centimetres (a - basket)
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Height: 7.50 centimetres (a - lid)
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Height: 26.70 centimetres (b - basket + lid)
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Height: 21.50 centimetres (b - basket)
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Height: 7.50 centimetres (b - lid)
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Height: 22.50 centimetres (c - basket + lid)
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Height: 20.20 centimetres (c - basket)
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Height: 6.80 centimetres (c - lid)
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Height: 17.50 centimetres (d - basket + lid)
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Height: 15 centimetres (d - basket)
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Height: 5.30 centimetres (d - lid)
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Height: 13.50 centimetres (e - basket + lid)
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Height: 11.80 centimetres (e - basket)
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Height: 5.80 centimetres (e - lid)
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Height: 10.40 centimetres (f - basket + lid)
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Height: 7.30 centimetres (f - basket)
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Height: 4.80 centimetres (f - lid)
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Width: 28.20 centimetres (a - basket)
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Width: 31.50 centimetres (a - lid)
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Width: 24.30 centimetres (b - basket)
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Width: 27.40 centimetres (b - lid)
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Width: 20.50 centimetres (c - basket)
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Width: 24 centimetres (c - lid)
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Width: 17.20 centimetres (d - basket)
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Width: 19.60 centimetres (d - lid)
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Width: 14 centimetres (e - basket)
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Width: 16.80 centimetres (e - lid)
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Width: 8.80 centimetres (f - basket)
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Width: 11.20 centimetres (f - lid)
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Depth: 28 centimetres (a - basket)
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Depth: 29.50 centimetres (a - lid)
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Depth: 24.80 centimetres (b - basket)
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Depth: 26.80 centimetres (b - lid)
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Depth: 20.90 centimetres (c - basket)
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Depth: 23.70 centimetres (c - lid)
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Depth: 17.10 centimetres (d - basket)
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Depth: 19.70 centimetres (d - lid)
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Depth: 13.80 centimetres (e - basket)
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Depth: 17.20 centimetres (e - lid)
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Depth: 8.80 centimetres (f - basket)
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Depth: 11.20 centimetres (f - lid)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1967
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from F W North and recorded as 'From the Lower Congo area, in a style associated with the Kingdom of the Kongo'.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1967,09.1.a-f