Small woven basket. Basket flares widely from a small round base toward lip. Construction is grass fibre woven around sedge root into a tube, thin at bottom centre, thickening as it winds up to rim. Red-brown dyed grass is used to create an irregular pattern of lines and triangles extending from base to top in shades of brown and red brown. 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 5.8 cm, diameter 20.0 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 3201/0012