1965.1.31

Collection type

Object

Description

Circular basketry cap, coil technique, decorated with circles & triangles of black string-work, tuft of frayed-out fibre ends on crown.

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, Material Plant Fibre, Process Basketry, Process Coiled

Object numbers

Accession number: 1965.1.31 Other numbers: D.1900.106c

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, Clothing Headgear, Hat