Woven basket for winnowing grain. Basket is low and shallow, flaring widely from a small base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into thick tubes, winding up from bottom centre to rim. Brown dyed grass is used to create a pattern of triangles across the inside and exterior of the basket. Offset concentric circles of brown decorate the base.

• Narrative

  Purchased by the donor, at a village on an island in the Okavango Delta, at the end of a wildlife viewing trip, in 1985.

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• Type of Item basket
• Culture Batswana
• Material grass, dye, sedge root
• Measurements height 7.5 cm, diameter 28.5 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Janet Tomkins
• Received from Janet Tomkins

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• Made in Okavango Swamps

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• Creation Date during 1985
• Ownership Date before September 29, 2016
• Acquisition Date on September 29, 2016

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• Item Classes basketry
• Condition good
• Accession Number 3201/0008