Coiled Basket with Lid
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Apr 2011
name: label: Donor Name
content: Anglo American PLC
notes: label: Notes
content: Large, finely woven coiled basket. Jar shaped, wider at the middle and narrower at the top and bottom. Geometic patterns in wide vertical bands, with dark brown, medium reddish brown, and cream colored fibers. Lid attached with a string that is threaded through the top. The accession file notes that large closed baskets with lids like this are traditionally used for storing grain, seeds, and sometimes sorghum beer. However, this basket was produced for the international art market by weaver Mashe Mbombo, through the Etsha Weavers Group. The main raw material is the fiber of the "vegetable ivory" palm tree (Hyphaene petersiana), called "mokola" in Botswana. The naturally cream-colored fiber is dyed shades of brown with the roots of the motlhakola (Euclea divinorum) and motsentsila (Berchemia discolor) trees.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Etsha, Ngamiland, Botswana, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hambukushu (Mbukushu)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2053000
label: USNM Number
content: E432870-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Basket
content: 53.5 cm
label: Diameter - Basket
content: ca. 51 cm
label: Diameter - Lid
content: 18 cm