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Double basket or basket and cover ?
Object Number 17-22-50/87259
Display Title Double basket or basket and cover ?
Descriptions
Object Description Double basket or basket and cover ? The top or cover is 21 cm high and the base or lower section is 21 cm high, when stacked 42 cm high.
Inventory Description Basket, round, woven fiber ends with carved and painted bentwood sides
Classification
  • Basket
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Materials Vegetable fiber, Wood, Pigment, Plant fiber
Dimensions Overall: 42 x 47.4 x 50.1 cm (16 9/16 x 18 11/16 x 19 3/4 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 87259
Credit Line Gift of Estate of Joseph A. Ropes, 1917
Provenance
Donor Estate of Joseph A. Ropes (1917)

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