Basket
Dye
42-35-464
From: El Salvador | Department of Sonsonate
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 42-35-464 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Nahuatl |
| Provenience | El Salvador | Department of Sonsonate |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Palm Leaf |
| Technique | Basketry |
| Description | small, square, palm leaf, containing nacascolo ornascolote, a fruit whose skin is used to dye gourds black,especially those of Izalco |
| Height | 3 cm |
| Length | 7 cm |
| Width | 7 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | S-5 - Collector Number |
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