Chicken crate of branches and leaves. Chitetere.

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Object Number 49-14-50/8306

Display Title Chicken crate of branches and leaves. Chitetere.

Descriptions

Indigenous Term Chitetere

Inventory Description Cage, woven vegetable fiber over spherical wood support

Classification

Cage

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Lambia
Yao

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Nyasaland

Additional Geographic Terms Mtimbuka; Fort Johnston, near

Materials Willow stem? , Palm leaf

Dimensions Overall: 47.5 x 48.5 x 43.5 cm (18 11/16 x 19 1/8 x 17 1/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 49-14-50/8306

Credit Line Museum Purchase, 1949

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