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Basket
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About this work
This woven hat looks brand new because it was one of the many items the business-savvy chief of Ekibondo had artists and artisans make for the foreigners who passed through his village.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBasket, by 1928. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mangbetu-style maker. Plant fibers and dye; overall: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.); diameter of top: 31.6 cm (12 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Gilpin Players of Karamu House, 1929.326
