id:			94906
accession number:	1915.464
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.464
updated:		2025-02-08 22:14:36.672000

Sifting Basket, before 1915. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo or Angola, possibly Chokwe-style maker. Plant fibers and dye; overall: 39.4 cm (15 1/2 in.); outside: 39.4 x 20.7 cm (15 1/2 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Educational Purchase Fund 1915.464

title:				Sifting Basket
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creation date:			before 1915
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1915
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creditline:			Educational Purchase Fund
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culture:	Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo or Angola, possibly Chokwe-style maker
technique:	Plant fibers and dye
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Tool
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 39.4 cm (15 1/2 in.); Outside: 39.4 x 20.7 cm (15 1/2 x 8 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings
	opening date:   2014-08-28T00:00:00
	<i>At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings</i>. The Galleries at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 4, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Museum of Art Educational Extension display, Cleveland, OH, 1931.', 'opening_date': '1931-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<a href="https://digitalarchives.clevelandart.org/digital/collection/p17142coll1/id/4239/rec/2">https://digitalarchives.clevelandart.org/digital/collection/p17142coll1/id/4239/rec/2</a>', 'opening_date': None}

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PROVENANCE

	(F. M. Rapp, probably by field collection in Portuguese West Africa (Angola) or Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: by 1915
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			* <div><!--block-->"In the spring of 1916, Mr. F. M. Rapp, mining engineer, now at Tonopah, Nevada, returned from the Belgian Congo, Central Africa, where he has been engaged for two years in geological work along the Kasai River and its tributaries."<br>M. G. Edwards, "Diamond-bearing gravel from Belgian Congo,"<em> American Mineralogist </em>(1917) 2 (7): 88–89.</div>
			
			
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	by sale to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1915–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Curnow, Kathy. <em>At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty, and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings</em>. The Galleries at Cleveland State University, 2014, cat. no. 1-3, pg. 46
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IMAGES

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