Basket "Suku Blai"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Oct 1996
label: Collection Date
content: 1975 to 1976
name: label: Collector
content: Margaret Sullivan
label: Donor Name
content: Margaret Sullivan
notes: label: Notes
content: LARGE, NATURAL COLORED, ROUND BASKET W/ LID (NOT ATTACHED). PINK TRIM ON LID & BASKET RIMS. BASKET HAS BRAIDED HANDLE ATTACHED TO LID ON OPPOSITE ENDS OF LID & CENTER. EXTERIOR DESIGN CONSISTS OF TRIANGULAR DESIGNS STACKED IN VERTICAL COLUMNS. EACH COLUMN IS IN ALTERNATING COLORS OF ROSE, CHECKERED ROSE/NATURAL COLOR, GREEN, & CHECKERED GREEN/NATURAL COLOR. FEMALE ARTISAN LEARNS SKILL FROM EITHER MOTHER OR A FEMALE FRIEND. SEE MANUSCRIPT PP. 114-123.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mamunta, Mayossa Section Kholifa Chieftaincy, Sierra Leone, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Temne
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409926
label: USNM Number
content: E427447-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 32 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 64 cm