Tutsi, Rwanda / Lidded Basket ("Agaseki" or "Ibeseke") / 1940

Tutsi, Rwanda
Lidded Basket ("Agaseki" or "Ibeseke")
1940
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Creator Nationality: African
Creator Name-CRT: Tutsi, Rwanda
Title: Lidded Basket ("Agaseki" or "Ibeseke")
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Creation Start Date: 1940
Creation End Date: 1940
Creation Date: 1940
Creation Place: Rwanda, Africa
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Classification Term: Container
Materials and Techniques: Fiber
Dimensions: Height: 10 1/4"; width: 4 1/2"
Description: A cylindrical coiled fiber basket with a high conical lid; very thin fiber splints coiled from base and wrapped with fine splint; the tall conical lid terminating in a point the same construction as the body; thicker wrapped bundles form body and lid rims; fiber natural tan with two black-dyed bands around body wall; the top band with undyed, natural fibers in two rows of zigzags; one zigzag row around lower band; two thin black-dyed bands around lid.
AMICA Contributor: Brooklyn Children's Museum
Owner Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
ID Number: 70.44.35ab
Credit Line: Gift of Lewis Cotlow, 1970
Rights: http://www.amico.org/rights/bcm_.html
Context: Tutsi elite women in Rwanda and Burundi, whose social position gave them leisure to do the careful work required, formerly made these very fine, coil-sewn baskets with their distinctive pointed conical lids. In Rwanda by the 1960s, basket-making was declining, as Tutsi social status declined and plastics became more plentiful. Craft workshops replaced individual work at home. The black-on-natural simple geometric patterning is typical. Today the decoration is often done with brightly colored commercial dyes. The baskets are used for storage and decoration.

Collected in Rwanda-Uganda. Lids in Rwanda are not decorated, while those in Burundi are.
AMICA ID: BCM_.70.44.35ab
AMICA Library Year: 2003
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