"Tabaq" Food Dish Cover
Unidentified maker (Sudan)
collected in the 1930s
Basketry and dye
Overall: 20 in. (50.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of W. Wedgwood Bowen
44.3.8692
Geography
Place Made: Sudan, Eastern Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by W. Wedgwood Bowen (1899-1987), Director of the Dartmouth College Museum, probably in the 1930's; given to present collection, 1944.
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