basket with lid

unrecorded Chokwe artist, artist

basket with lid, late 1800s–1914

Where object was made: Angola

Material/technique: wood; plant fiber; weaving; bamboo

Dimensions:
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 26 x 23.5 cm
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 10 1/4 x 9 1/4 in

Credit line: Gift of Claude D. Brown

Accession number: 2007.0933.a,b

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Chokwe Art from the Claude D. Brown Collection," Feb-2000
Artists created a variety of carved designs, which were mostly inspired by different basket weaves. An example of a basket weave used as a design elsewhere can be seen in the herringbone weave of this basket and the herringbone design carved on the back of the throne located next to the basket.