Umuta
Carrying Basket
87-34-7
From: Venezuela | Mariusa Kakoina
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 87-34-7 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Warao |
| Provenience | Venezuela | Mariusa Kakoina |
| Culture Area | Amazonia |
| Period | Modern |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Fiber |
| Description | Made of tirite (sehoro) reed with moriche leaf fiver carrying strap. Principally used by men to carry chunks of moriche palm wood from the fields to the village where women process it into flour. Also used as all purpose carrying baskets by men and women. Umuta. Made of Peru. |
| Height | 137.16 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 44 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Charles Briggs, 1987 |
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