Basketry tray
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Jan 2009
label: Collection Date
content: 1973
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Marilyn Heldman
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Marilyn Heldman
notes: label: Notes
content: Shallow tray with ~4cm. tall foot. Coiled basketry, mostly natural color, with hot pink, purple, and green stripes, and row of V-shaped motifs near the rim. Rim and foot wrapped with leather strap to reinforce edges. Donor says this is a "basketry tray... used as work surface [for sorting grains]. Collected [in Tigray] in 1973, but it was not new at this time."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tigray Region, Ethiopia, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2045574
label: USNM Number
content: E432988-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basketry Tray
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Diameter
content: 49.5 cm
label: Maximum Height
content: 9 cm