Wedding basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Nov 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1963
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: 11 nesting baskets and leather lid. Each basket has a square bottom, with the corners and rim reinforced with leather. The top half of outer basket is covered in leather, and there is a small loop of leather on one side (handle?). The lid is a tiny inverted basket, covered with leather.
label: Notes
content: According to the donor, this is an "old Mossi wedding basket... acquired en route from Ouagadougou, Haute Volta (Burkina Faso) to Navrongo, Ghana, 1963. The Ghana Airways plane never showed, so I came down in the Ghanaian ambassador's Land Rover, stopping at markets along the way."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 12
place: label: Place
content: Burkina Faso, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mossi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420734
label: USNM Number
content: E431654-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - When Stacked As One Unit
content: 15 cm
label: Width - When Stacked As One Unit
content: 14 cm
label: Height - When Stacked As One Unit
content: 24 cm