The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 26, 2024
Sifting Basket
before 1915
Overall: 39.4 cm (15 1/2 in.); Outside: 39.4 x 20.7 cm (15 1/2 x 8 1/8 in.)
Educational Purchase Fund 1915.464
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
F. M. Rapp––who acquired this basket in Congo while working for a diamond mine––attended the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland.Description
The Chokwe pounded maize into a course flour and then sifted it in order to separate the finest flour for cooking. This domestic object exhibits a refined, elegant artistry in its proportion, shape, and integrated woven textures.- by 1915(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)1915–by sale to the Cleveland Museum of Art
- At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings. The Galleries at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 4, 2014).Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Museum of Art Educational Extension display, Cleveland, OH, 1931.
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1915.464