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<p>[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 4397496, member: 50"]Some additional info....I might be getting close to sorting this out (but not at all sure) and not on the value.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID191760.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID191760.html" rel="nofollow">http://objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID191760.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]371308[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>2001.77.5</b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Coiled pear-shaped basket with flat base and straight neck decorated with red tanned goat skin, and cow hide strapping. [CW [OPS Move] 30/11/2016]</b></font></p><p><b>Place details:</b> AFRICA. Sudan, Republic of / Southern Darfur. <b>Cultural Group:</b> Beni Halba?: Beni Husein?: Rizekat: <b>Local Name:</b> kerio <b>Materials:</b> Goat Skin Animal / Palm Fibre Plant / Animal Hide Skin / ?. <b>Processes:</b> Basketry / Plaited / Stitched / ?. <b>Dimensions:</b> Max H = 350 mm Max Diam = 210 mm <b>Field Collector:</b> Natalie Tobert <b>When Collected:</b> 1979 - 1985 <b>PRM Source:</b> Natalie Tobert <b>Acquired:</b> Purchased 2001 <b>Related Collections:</b> 2001.81.</p><p><br /></p><p>KEYWORD: Basket / CLASS: Basketry / Marriage / ?.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Object description:</b> Baskets of this type are traditionally given by Rizekat grooms as gifts to their brides. [JP 12/2/2004] The strapping around the bottom half of the basket is vertical and is secured at the top and the bottom bands of twisted hide tied horizontally around the circumference of the basket. Around the middle section of the basket is horizotal red tanned goat skin strapping. The rim of the neck is edged with goat skin and a furthr band of woven goat skin which extends beyond the circumference of the neck and ends in a tassle. A basketry saucer shaped lid is attached, and there is a plaited carrying strap of ?cow hide. [JP 13/2/2004]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Research notes:</b> A basket of this type is illustrated (nb. the illustration is NOT an exact representation of this basket) in Rizekat Wedding Baskets, Sudan by Natalie Tobert, Journal of Museum Ethnography No. 4, December 1993, p. 79, Fig, 2.3, and is described as follows: 'Container presented as part of the marriage good. Used as a container for flour when made of palm fibre. When made of root fibres it is used to transport milk: there is no leakage since the fibres swell. The leather thonging outside the container is of cattle hide.' See this article for information on the materials, manufacture, and use of wedding baskets. In Natalie Torbert's handlist of items given to the Museum she lists this item as 'S. Darfur, Beni Husein' but on her handwritten label attached to the object she has written 'S. Darfur, Beni Halba'. Her article in the Journal of Museum Ethnography implies that only Rizekat women make these baskets, though they may sell them to other people. It is not therefore clear which cultural group made this item.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 4397496, member: 50"]Some additional info....I might be getting close to sorting this out (but not at all sure) and not on the value. [URL]http://objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID191760.html[/URL] [ATTACH=full]371308[/ATTACH] [SIZE=5][B]2001.77.5[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][B]Coiled pear-shaped basket with flat base and straight neck decorated with red tanned goat skin, and cow hide strapping. [CW [OPS Move] 30/11/2016][/B][/SIZE] [B]Place details:[/B] AFRICA. Sudan, Republic of / Southern Darfur. [B]Cultural Group:[/B] Beni Halba?: Beni Husein?: Rizekat: [B]Local Name:[/B] kerio [B]Materials:[/B] Goat Skin Animal / Palm Fibre Plant / Animal Hide Skin / ?. [B]Processes:[/B] Basketry / Plaited / Stitched / ?. [B]Dimensions:[/B] Max H = 350 mm Max Diam = 210 mm [B]Field Collector:[/B] Natalie Tobert [B]When Collected:[/B] 1979 - 1985 [B]PRM Source:[/B] Natalie Tobert [B]Acquired:[/B] Purchased 2001 [B]Related Collections:[/B] 2001.81. KEYWORD: Basket / CLASS: Basketry / Marriage / ?. [B]Object description:[/B] Baskets of this type are traditionally given by Rizekat grooms as gifts to their brides. [JP 12/2/2004] The strapping around the bottom half of the basket is vertical and is secured at the top and the bottom bands of twisted hide tied horizontally around the circumference of the basket. Around the middle section of the basket is horizotal red tanned goat skin strapping. The rim of the neck is edged with goat skin and a furthr band of woven goat skin which extends beyond the circumference of the neck and ends in a tassle. A basketry saucer shaped lid is attached, and there is a plaited carrying strap of ?cow hide. [JP 13/2/2004] [B]Research notes:[/B] A basket of this type is illustrated (nb. the illustration is NOT an exact representation of this basket) in Rizekat Wedding Baskets, Sudan by Natalie Tobert, Journal of Museum Ethnography No. 4, December 1993, p. 79, Fig, 2.3, and is described as follows: 'Container presented as part of the marriage good. Used as a container for flour when made of palm fibre. When made of root fibres it is used to transport milk: there is no leakage since the fibres swell. The leather thonging outside the container is of cattle hide.' See this article for information on the materials, manufacture, and use of wedding baskets. In Natalie Torbert's handlist of items given to the Museum she lists this item as 'S. Darfur, Beni Husein' but on her handwritten label attached to the object she has written 'S. Darfur, Beni Halba'. Her article in the Journal of Museum Ethnography implies that only Rizekat women make these baskets, though they may sell them to other people. It is not therefore clear which cultural group made this item.[/QUOTE]
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