Circular coiled basket decorated with strands dyed purple and green on a natural ground. The basket is woven with geometric designs of checkered, triangular fields, vertical and horizontal bands. For the peaked coiled lid belonging to this basket see 1945.9.70 .2. [CW [OPS Move] 30/11/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Circular coiled basket decorated with strands dyed purple and green on a natural ground. The basket is woven with geometric designs of checkered, triangular fields, vertical and horizontal bands. For the peaked coiled lid belonging to this basket see 1945.9.70 .2. [CW [OPS Move] 30/11/2016]
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, Process Decorated, Process Chequer Woven
Dimensions: Diameter: max 178 mm, Height: max 70 mm, Height: max 140 mm total, Diameter: max 178 mm total
Object numbers: Accession number: 1945.9.70.1
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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