Basket with lid "igiseke"

Rwanda, Tutsi

sold EUR 500

Provenance

collected in Kenia, 1900-1910
British Family Collection
Gisela Rauch (died 1992), Bad Kissingen, Germany

Size

H: 30 cm

H: 11.8 inch

Description

plant fibre, partly dyed in brown, extremely fine straw netting built up in spiral-shaped loops

Drake Moraga, V., Weaving Abstraction, The Textile Museum Washington, D.C., 2011, p. 208 f.

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