Basket with Lid
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: Carl Steckelmann
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A graduated series of baskets, some of which fit inside others. Cylindrical; round wooden bases in bottoms and tops. Inner basketry woven of broad strips. Outer decoration in fine light and dark brown fiber, in geometric designs. A tag on similar basket 152614 reads "Made only in Longo Bonda, Loango, Congo Française." Longobonde is a coastal town shown on old maps at about 4°20' S. 11/3/66: Specimen (A) loaned to Cult. Hist. (MHT) 165277X Loaned to Cult. Hist (MHT) 11/3/66. Returned 2/13/81. "A" Lent to NMAH Life in America 4-25-85 LOAN RETURNED: Nov. 1988"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Mayumba, Gabon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Vili
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026257
label: USNM Number
content: E165277-5
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - A
content: 11.5 cm
label: Width - A
content: 12.5 cm