Unrecorded artist, Tjiretjire Peoples

Notes

This basket was bought from a San woman in the Serowe area of Botswana. It was woven with a coiling technique using open simple oversewing that intentionally exposes the core material, which in this case is grass. This method also saves on the wrapping material, which is important if not readily available. The binding material has not been dyed; the brown is the outside of the Grewia flava bark (moretlwa), while the white is the inside of the bark.

- Dr Elizabeth Terry

Provenance

Dr Elizabeth Terry Collection.