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Object Number 32-61-50/B5207
Display Title Basket of raffia
Descriptions
Inventory Description Woven fiber basket, cylindrical, shallow, folded.
Classification
  • Basket
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tsimihety
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Madagascar
Materials Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 23 x 17.7 x 6.1 cm (9 1/16 x 6 15/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 32-61-50/B5207; 186554

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