"Hare Spirit" Basket
Sukuma People (?)
Tanzania
8 x 6 1/2 inches (21 x 16.5 cm)
DESCRIPTION
Prestige open top basket
Sukuma People (?) Tanzania
Circa 1900
Coiled and woven basketry, natural fibers and dye
This very rare basket combines figurative with abstract patterning, and is possibly related to "Hare Spirit" masks from the Makonde in in Tanzania/Mozambique border region
CONDITION
Excellent
Provenance
Clive Loveless