Box
AF533A
From: Zaire | Belgian Congo | Kasai District
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF533A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Bushongo |
| Provenience | Zaire | Belgian Congo | Kasai District |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Technique | Carved |
| Description | Semi-lunar shaped, carved, wooden. Semicircular wooden container with lid; carved on the sides of the box are interlacing loops with crosshatch pattern incised in the background; small triangles are carved at both ends of front side; carved in center of the base of the box are two interlocking double lined rectangles; carved hole is found on center backside of box. |
| Height | 5.2 cm |
| Length | 22.5 cm |
| Width | 8 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912 |
| Other Number | 574 - Original Number |
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