Basket

2010-10-36

From: Senegal

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2010-10-36
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Senegal
Section African
Materials Fiber | Leather | Pigment
Description

Woven fiber basket with flat bottom and vertical sides. Leather around rim with incised, painted leather fringe with large geometric pieces attached around the outside at rim. Bottom of basket lined with leather on inside and outside. Painted with reddish-brown pigment in curved line pattern.

Height 15 cm
Outside Diameter 25 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2010
Other Number 1994.X.11147 - Other Number

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