Lidded basket
Men wove baskets associated with power. This basket could have been used to hold divination pieces and valued possessions. The basket has four tiers, which might reflect cosmological beliefs associated with the stepped tier of rocks built on the graves of Kongo kings.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 9/1889/87a
- Collection Class
- Containers
- Collection Area Region
- Central Africa
- Material
- basketware
- Common Name
- lidded basket
- Simple Name
- basket
- Production Town
- Loango
- Production County
- Kingdom of Kongo
- Production Country
- Congo, Democratic Republic of
- Production Year Low
- 1879
- Production Year High
- 1889
