Vintage Tonga Binga Basket (48.13) joined-description-fields A gemsbok buck-head — also

A gemsbok buck-head — also known as oryx — hand-carved in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) from a single piece of non-indigenous Jacaranda wood

A hand-punched cushion cover in AfriScandi pattern 2 — a blend of African motif and Scandinavian restraint

woven into intricate patterns

shields like this carried real social and spiritual weight

Image shows the comparison of both jars

Vintage Tonga Binga Basket (48.13) joined-description-fields A gemsbok buck-head — alsoThese vintage handwoven baskets are the apex of the Bathonga people in Zimbabwe and Southern Zambia. The baskets made from the Ilala palm leaf start as a woven square and end up almost perfectly round. The pattern on the edging is referred to as snakes belly, as the pattern resembles the scales of a serpent. Palm fibres are died using tree bark to make fibres with different colours. These particular range of baskets are vintage originally used to