Basket "Zat (Pl. Biat)"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Aug 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
notes: label: Notes
content: Listed on page 62 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the African Tribes (Textiles)". (this number is listed twice on this page, presumably because the two items are part of a lot)
label: Notes
content: From card: "For food, fishing, eating, etc. Used by women. "These baskets called Zat (pl.Biat) are used by the women to bail out the water of pools, from which they have diverted the stream, to get the small fish they contain. The women use them also as food baskets or plates from which they eat plantains, cassava, etc.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Gabon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fang
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025654
label: USNM Number
content: E164859-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Width
content: 31.8 cm
label: Diameter
content: 10 cm