- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Small basketry table. The pedestal is coiled basketry which is wider at the bottom and narrows towards the top. Decorated with a band of vertically overlaid plant fibre closer to the foot. The table top is in the form of a shallow bowl or dish which expands from the base to the top rim. The centre of the top is decorated with a circle of purple and pink dyed grass fibre. [MOBB [OPS move] 1/12/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Sidamo Sodo North West of Lake Abaya
- Cultural groups
- Wolaytta
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1971
- Date collected
- 1971
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1971
- Materials and processes
- Material Grass Fibre Plant, Material Grass Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Basketry, Process Decorated, Process Coiled, Process Dyed
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 311 mm, Height: max 281 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1973.14.2 Other numbers: W41
- Research and responses
The 'W' in Jean Brown's number presumably refers to the 'Walamo.' For full text of Accession Book introduction (from Collections XVII Jean Brown Book III) see entry for 1968.20.1. For full text of introduction to this collection (1973.14) see 1973.14.1 [OD 13/3/2001].
Search terms: Basketry, Furniture Dwelling, Food and Drink, Table, Food Accessory
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