Circular coiled basketry tray, with plain coiled basketry pedestal. The tray is patterned with a central star design, with concentric bands and triangles, made from strands dyed purple, pink and green on a natural ground. [CW [OPS Move] 15/12/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Circular coiled basketry tray, with plain coiled basketry pedestal. The tray is patterned with a central star design, with concentric bands and triangles, made from strands dyed purple, pink and green on a natural ground. [CW [OPS Move] 15/12/2016]
Geographical reference: Ethiopia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Ethiopia
Person: Field collector Wilfred Patrick Thesiger; PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1934-1935
Date collected: 1934-1935
Acquisition information: Donated: 1945
Materials and processes: Process Basketry, Process Coiled
Dimensions: Diameter: max 320 mm, Height: max 100 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1945.9.67
Research and responses: For a brief account of the collections donated to the PRM by Wilfred Thiesiger, see 'An Incidental Collection: Objects Donated by Wilfred Thesiger to the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Jeremy Coote, in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, edited by Christopher Morton and Philip N. Grover (London: Harper Press, 2010), pp. 116-26. [JC 21 12 2010]

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