Plaited grass basket or "Mkwijua". Flat bottom, high sides, rounded at ends, originally part of Medicine Man's outfit, containing gourch bones, shells etc., Bondei tribe, Tanganyika, 1871-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A45598
- Materials:
- grass, content, wood, content, cloth, contents, leaves, contents, nut, contents, shell, contents, gourd and contents, bone
- Measurements:
-
approx.: height 300 mm
approx.: length 360 mm
approx.: width 260 mm
- type:
- baskets
- credit:
- Universities Mission to Central Africa
