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Object Number 39-39-50/4300
Display Title Woven straw dish with cow dung plastered on back - 2' 2" long +
Descriptions
Indigenous Term bukoko
Inventory Description Basket, woven fiber, oval, shallow, wood stick rim, mud on exterior (dung)
Classification
  • Basket
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Banyaruanda
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Nyaruanda
Additional Geographic Terms Uganda, Southwest: Kigesi District: Nyakabande; Lake Mutanda, near
Dimensions Overall: 66 x 57.5 x 7 cm (26 x 22 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 39-39-50/4300

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