Basket "Kutakusa"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Oct 1996
label: Collection Date
content: 1975 to 1976
name: label: Collector
content: Margaret Sullivan
label: Donor Name
content: Margaret Sullivan
notes: label: Notes
content: SOFT, FLEXIBLE BASKET HAS ROUND, FLAT BASE WHICH ALSO HAS ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM BRAIDED RIM SEWN TO IT. STRAIGHT SIDES END IN FLARED, CIRCULAR OPENING. NATURAL COLOR W/ 5 BROWN HORIZONTAL BANDS & VERTICAL ZIG-ZAGS OF DARK BROWN & NATURAL COLOR. ENDS OF THIN STRAP ARE ATTACHED TO OUTSIDE OF BASKET, PLACED CLOSE TOGETHER. RIM HAS THIN TWISTED CORD ATTTACHED AROUND, EXCESS CORD IS TIED IN A KNOT. MAKER IS FEMALE, TAUGHT BY HER MOTHER & JUST BEGAN MAKING THEM. OBJECT IS WOMAN'S BASKET, NOT CARRIED BY MEN. USED FOR FISHING & FOR PERSONAL USE, NOT COMMERCIAL. SEE MANUSCRIPT PP. 148-150, CATALOG P. 17.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sakuta, Koinadugu District, Northern Province, Sierra Leone, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Limba
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409926
label: USNM Number
content: E427409-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - W/o Strap
content: 52 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 22 cm