Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by Marshall H. Saville (1867-1935, MAI staff member) from an unknown source in 1916 during travel in South America using funds donated by Thea (Mrs. George) Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Northern Amazonia
- MAI agent
- Dr. Marshall H. Saville (Marshall Howard Saville/M.H. Saville/MHS), Non-Indian, 1867-1935
- Presenter/funding source
- Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
- Object Name
- Basket sieve/sifter
- Media/Materials
- Vegetal Fiber, wood, cordage
- Techniques
- Twill-plaited
- Object Type
- Food Gathering and Preparation
