Wedding basket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1974
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: Basket with leather bottom. Sides made of widely-spaced reeds (or wooden sticks), woven together at the base with strips of leather dyed red, brown, black, green, and white. Top edge / rim bound with wide strip of leather. Very long leather fringe attached to bottom and sides.
label: Notes
content: Donor's notes describe this as a "Beriberi wedding basket…with long leather fringe completely around it (to hide the face)." She purchased it in the Sokoto market in 1974.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sokoto, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kanuri
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2011246
label: USNM Number
content: E431657-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 37 cm
label: Width
content: 35.5 cm
label: Height - Plus 59 Cm With Fringe
content: 16.5 cm