Spirally coiled winnowing-basket with flared rim. [CW [OPS Move] 6/12/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Spirally coiled winnowing-basket with flared rim. [CW [OPS Move] 6/12/2016]
Long description: Spirally coiled winnowing-basket with flared rim. The surface of the basket is coated with an organic material. there is a leather loop attached to the rim. [CW [OPS Move] 6/12/2016]
Geographical reference: Somalia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Somalia; Afmadow
Cultural groups: Somali; Daarood; Ogaden
Person: Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton; PRM source Diana Powell-Cotton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1935
Date collected: 1934 - 1935
Acquisition information: Donated: 1936
Materials and processes: Material Plant Fibre, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Animal Dung, Process Coiled, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Diameter: max 407 mm, Height: max 65 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1936.16.49 Other numbers: 513
Research and responses: According to the Ethnologue Online, Daarood is a large clan family in northeast Somalia and the Ogaadeen region of Ethiopia, extreme southern Somalia and northeast Kenya which speaks several different dialects. Ogaadeen is the largest clan within the Daarood clan family, living in eastern Ethiopia, extreme southern Somalia and northeast Kenya. [CW 10/5/2000]

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