Basket Lid
37-22-117B
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Shengge
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-117B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Shengge |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber | Wood |
| Description | Bowl-shaped, with lid. Coiled. Dyes: pink, yellow, purple, black, green. Yellow andn black, native. See 37-22-115. For materials, see 37-22-114. The general word for basket is blei. A baka bok is any basket. usually with a lid, in which things are put away for safe keeping. |
| Outside Diameter | 33 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 311 - Collector Number |
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