Dish Cover

A dish cover, or luffah , to keep flies off of food, made from grass fibre woven into a bowl shape. The basket work is circular and shallow concave, woven in yellow, black and red fibre. This type of coil weave is associated with Temne basketry, though more commonly with the shuku blai container.

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Further Information

• Type: Domestic equipment
• Object: Dish Cover
• Materials: Vegetable, organic fibre
• Culture Group: Temne
• Dimensions: Unknown
• Production Date: Pre 1899
• Associated Places: Kombrehma
• Associated People: Thomas Joshua Alldridge (Collector)
• Museum: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
• Accession Number: BMAG:R3483/95b

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