Basket "Suku Blai"
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: ROUND BASKET W/ LID IN NATURAL COLOR MADE FROM GRASS "IMPERATA CYLINDRICA" & RAFFIA. EXTERIOR DESIGN CONSISTS OF HORIZONTAL BANDS W/ STEPPED DIAGONAL PATTERN IN PURPLE & PINK. UNATTACHED LID HAS 4 BRAIDED LOOPS & SAME DESIGN AS BASKET'S. CONDITION: LID NOT A GOOD FIT & EASILY FALLS INTO BASKET; BASKET APPEARS A BIT LOPSIDED. COLORS ARE FADED. BASKET NORMALLY MADE BY WOMEN. MAMUNTA WAS A CENTER FOR BASKETRY PRODUCTION IN THE MID-1970'S. NAME "SUKU BLAI" MEANS: "SUKU" MEANS COILING PROCESS, "BLAI" MEANS BASKET. SEE CATALOG PP. 11, 22.
label: Notes
content: From African Voices exhibit: "The coiled technique used by basket makers in Sierra Leone today is similar to that brought by enslaved West Africans to South Carolina's rice plantations."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mamunta, Mayossa Section Kholifa Chieftaincy, Sierra Leone, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Temne
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409926
label: USNM Number
content: E427448-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 22 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 50 cm