Dish; Basket; Totwana

Item

Title

Dish; Basket; Totwana

Creator

Unrecorded

Description

Physical Description: Wide shallow basketwork dish made of grass or palm fibre, with a shallow foot base. The fibre is of a natural yellow colour with darker brown fibres forming the central circle with sectional pattern. The pattern is similar to the traditional Tswana design 'Tears of the Giraffe'.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

Pre 1897

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Whole: 80 mm x 485 mm
Mokola; Palm fibre
Basket weaving

Identifier

E3/1/70

Space/Place

Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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Basket weaving