Basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Mar 1895
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. John H. Camp
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. John H. Camp
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "RING-SHAPED WITH NECK AND TWO LOOPS AT TOP; BODY OF BASKET WICKER WORK, NECK COILED. PROBABLY A MONEY BASKET FOR USE WITH SHELL MONEY. QUIGGIN (A SURVEY OF PRIMITIVE MONEY, P. 47 AND FIG. 5) ASCRIBES THIS TO THE BAMBALA, AND SAYS THEY WERE USED FOR CARRYING NZIMBU, OLIVELLA SHELL CURRENCY. THIS IS CONFIRMED BY DARTEVELLE (N'ZIMBU, FIG. 79), BUT WITHOUT TRIBAL ASCRIPTION."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 12 p. 100 in Schurtz, Heinrich. 2024. Outline of the Origins of Money. [S.l.]: HAU.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Dec 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mbala
label: Culture
content: (Ba Mbala)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028914
label: USNM Number
content: E169131-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Diameter
content: 15 cm
label: Height
content: 17.5 cm
label: Width
content: 5.5 cm