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Anyuak basket


Date Made: By 1936 and collected by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Anyuak basket
apäl
apäl

The above small basket made from a yellow plant fibre strips, possibly raffia, and brown wood. The upper part has been built around a frame made out of a single wooden twig with round section, its bark largely in place, bent into a circular loop with the ends overlapping. This basket is known as akoga, and was used for holding mussel-shell spoons, called apäl