Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

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Lidded Basket

Maker Tutsi Artist

Date20th century

Made/manufacturedRwanda, Africa

MediumSisal, bamboo and papyrus fibers, banana leaf pigment

ClassificationsFurnishings and Equipment

Credit LineGift of Marc and Denyse Ginzberg

Object number2008.29

Collections

AFRICAN

DescriptionBasket with rounded bottom and conical lid, strips of cane used for substructure and fine overlaid weaving of natural and dark brown dyed grass. The body of the basket has a dark brown pattern of a double row of 14 triangles, and the lid has a checkboard pattern in the same natural dark brown dyed coloration on the rim and the cylindrical knob top.