Temne
Lidded Basket
Temne, 1933-1966
Scroll
Temne
Lidded Basket
Temne, 1933-1966
Physical Qualities
Grasses, aniline dyes, 8.8 x 15.5 Diam. cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Nancy Schilling, Arbutus, Maryland
Object Number
2002.626a-b
Bowl-shaped basket with flat lid constructed with coils of grass wrapped with grass; surface of container decorated with nested zigzag lines forming a rosette on the bottom.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; Nancy Schilling, Arbutus, MD; ex her sister-in-law, Hilda (Schilling) Silver (died 1985), Arbutus, MD; ex her sister-in-law, Dr. Mabel Irene Silver, O.B.E. (died c. 1972, on Easter day, at age 70), Baltimore, MD (Missionary doctor for the United Brethren Church in Rotifunk, Sierra Leone, 1932 to 1962, at the Hatfield-Archer Hospital; residence at death: 524 North Charles Street, Baltimore)
