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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 12010954, member: 8267&quot;]Probably a grain basket made by a Hausa weaver in Nigeria.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an example in the British Museum that shows similar colors and pattern, combining grass bundle coils stitched with raffia and leather trim -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]551123[/ATTACH]</p><p>Description</p><p>Register 1955:</p><p>Composite container, of a basket with lid, coil sewn in pink black and natural, with leather rim, base, closing and carrying straps.</p><p><a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1955-05-270" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1955-05-270" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1955-05-270</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Yours may not have had a separate lid. Simple open bowl forms are common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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