Woven basket. Basket flares widely from a small round base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into a tube, narrow at bottom centre, thickening as it winds up to rim. Brown dyed grass is used to create open diamond shaped patterns extending from rim to base, with a smaller, closed diamond in a light brown inside. This is visible on both interior and exterior of basket.

• Narrative

  Purchased by the donor from the "Botswanacraft" shop in Gaborone, in 1985.

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• Type of Item basket
• Culture Batswana
• Material grass, sedge root, dye
• Measurements height 7.5 cm, diameter 22.7 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Janet Tomkins
• Received from Janet Tomkins

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• Made in Botswana
• Collected in Gaborone

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• Creation Date during 1985
• Collection 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 3201/0011