Reed basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Nov 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1965
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: Square- bottom basket. Dried grasses or reeds, twined together. Edges are woven in at the rim, with cotton yarn added to make fringe. 5 cowrie shells added to the cotton fringe on one side.
label: Notes
content: Donor's notes say she "acquired [this] in Bolgatanga [in] 1965, when [she] went up with a group of architecture students from U.S.T. to to measure up the Tallensi compounds. Cowries were still being used in the market: 5 for a British penny."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bolgatanga, Ghana, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tallensi
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420734
label: USNM Number
content: E431655-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 13.5 cm