1965.1.26

Collection type

Object

Description

Basket with lid, both with decorative stitched overlay on sides of both basket & lid. Lid overlaps half of body resting on a ledge & is attached by twisted fibre string.

Geographical reference

Congo, Republic of

Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Republic of

Chad

Africa > Central Africa > Chad

Central African Republic

Africa > Central Africa > Central African Republic

Gabon

Africa > Central Africa > Gabon

Person

Field collector Richard Edward Dennett

PRM source Folk-Lore Society

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1895

Date collected

By 1895

Acquisition information

Donated: 1965

Materials and processes

Material String Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Process Basketry, Process Twill, Process Stitched, Process Overlay, Process Twisted

Dimensions

Height 95 mm, Length: max 240 mm, Width: max 138 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1965.1.26 Other numbers: D.1900.104a

Associated publications

For a consideration of the evidence for concluding that the Congo material in the Folklore Society donation (i.e. collection 1965.1) was collected by Richard Edward Dennett in the 1890s and given by him to the Folklore Society in or around 1895, see 'Hidden Charms: Writing On, Around, and About a Congo Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Sally Ayres, in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 25 (2012), pp. 55-63. (Photocopy in RDF.) [JC 18 4 2013] For a consideration of the evidence for concluding that the Congo material in the Folklore Society donation (i.e. collection 1965.1) was collected by Richard Edward Dennett in the 1890s and given by him to the Folklore Society in or around 1895, see pages 12 (note 23), 29-30, 183 (note 185), 241-244, 308, of 'Hidden Histories and Multiple Meanings: The Richard Dennett Collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter', by Sara Craig Ayres (Plymouth: Pymouth University, Ph.D. thesis, 2012). (Printouts of relevant pages in RDF.) [JC 7 8 2013]

Search terms: Basketry, Basket, Lid