basket
- Museum number
- Oc1980,Q.1122
- Description
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Basket made of finely woven vegetable fibre around part of a coconut shell, decorated with shell disc beads, plaited fibre loop fringe around mouth.
- Production date
- 18thC-19thC (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 14 centimetres
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Width: 20 centimetres
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Depth: 20 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2011 Feb-May, Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Basketry: Making Human Nature
- Condition
- Some damage to the basketry. The coconut is cracked. The whole is intact.
- Acquisition notes
- Acquisition details unknown.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1980,Q.1122