Cylindrical Lidded Basket
CultureKongo peoples
MediumWoven fiber with wooden bottoms and lid undersides
DimensionsOverall: 7 3/4 × 7 3/4 inches (19.69 × 19.69 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. White
Object numberF84-85/4 A,B
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DescriptionLidded container with wooden bottom and top (to lid). top are woven basketry with finer woven decorative twill plaiting covering sides of basket and sides and top of lid. Color change in design centered on top of lid and on sides of container. Single overall design on sides of container and on top of lid.ProvenanceChloe McLellan Pierce (1816-1909), Edgartown, MA, by 1909 [1];
Her gift to her niece, Chloe McLellan Coffin (1856-1939), Edgartown, MA, by 1933;
Her gift to her niece, Helen Josephine Coffin (1888-1935), Cleveland, OH, 1933;
With Thomas Alexander III, Saint Louis, MO;
Donald and Fifi White, Shawnee Mission, KS, by 1984;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1984.
NOTES:
[1] This basket is one in a group of five with the same provenance. On the base of one of the other baskets in the group (Nelson-Atkins no. F84-85/3 B), two inscriptions read: “Chloe M. Coffin from Aunt Chloe M. Pierce” and “To Helen Coffin from Aunt Chloe For Green Hollow 1933.”
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F84-85/2 A,B
F84-85/1 A,B
F84-85/3 A,B
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