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Samburu

Gourd Vessel in Basket

Samburu, 1933-1966

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Samburu

Gourd Vessel in Basket

Samburu, 1933-1966

Physical Qualities Gourd, leather, wood, fiber, resin, 41.5 H x 29 D cm.
Credit Line Gift of Carolyn Barnes, Alexandria, Virginia, in Memory of Murvil and Katherine Barnes
Object Number 1998.586
Gourd vessel in basket; basket is made of a stick frame woven with leather thongs; vessel is a gourd with a braided fiber lip; lid is a dome-shaped piece of wood with a flat top marked with perpendicular lines on which is fastened a carrying rope (two lengths for criss-crossing across lid and one for attaching to the side of the camel). Lid serves also as a bowl (residue remains).
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected by donor in northern Kenya between 1970-1974 while on assignment for USAID.

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