Basket (Di-Kumba)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Mar 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Heli Chatelain
label: Donor Name
content: Heli Chatelain
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "The stiff rings or hoops near the edge are strips of palm rib. The body of the basket consists of plaited strips of "di-teba" palm leaves. The cords by which the basket is carried are made of the fine palm fiber (mpusu) used for making grass mats. The present basket was brought all the way from Katanga down the Lualaba, and Lomami to Lusambo on the Sankuru, thence down to Stanley Pool, Matadi, and by streamer to Loanda, by the washwoman of Lieut. Le Marionel. She accompanied him for 9 years in his journeys, and from her this basket was secured, on her return to Loanda, her native town."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Luba
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026802
label: USNM Number
content: E166141-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket