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Description: | Finely made coiled baskets such as this are known in Sierra Leone by their Temne name, shuku blai, and used to contain valuable possessions. They are usually made by women.
Basket and lid made of coiled grasses with alternating colours of black and brown.
caption: Top view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 210ii
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 210ii | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | lids grasses coiled basketry grass lids (containers) | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-130128 | Go to resource |
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