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Description: | 'Xirutu' (food basket) made out of polychrome plastic-coated telephone wire coiled around a core of vegetal fibre.
'"Xirutu" are food baskets mostly made out of a fibre coil of a woody creeper, cocculus hirsutus (Menispermaceae), over which telephone wire is stitched. Previously only natural fibre and dyes were used to make Xirutu baskets' (Africa Media Online, 2009).
Comparable basket in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, object number 1993.9.2, also collected by Tessa Katzenellenbogen.
Comparable basket in the British Museum, object number Af1991,09.67.
A basketry beer pot cover, or 'imbenge', made from telephone wire in green, orange, white, grey, black and red.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object nos 1995.106, 1995.107, 1995.108, 1995.109 and 1995.114
caption: Detail view of part of Horniman Museum object no 1995.106
caption: Detail view of part of Horniman Museum object nos 1995.109, 1995.106, 1995.107 and 1995.114
caption: Detail view of part of Horniman Museum object nos 1995.106, 1995.107 and 1995.108
caption: Detail view of part of Horniman Museum object nos 1995.106, 1995.107 and 1995.114
caption: Detail view of part of Horniman Museum object nos 1995.106, 1995.107 and 1995.107
caption: Top view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1995.106
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1995.106 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | basketry North Sotho plastic wood metal Pedi vegetable fibre baskets (containers) Family and Home copper alloy Food and Feasting | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-49501 | Go to resource |
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