IOM

Assig. object

basket

English Name

clothing storage basket

Rohingya Name

sammua

Authorship

Nur Alom

Collections

Household

Basketry

Categories

Basketry (BSK)

Functions

Household item

Storage

Inventory no.

BSK0021

Description

Sammua is a wide, flat two-piece storage basket to store clothes in Rohingya households. This type of sammua is larger than the tiffin-carrier sammua. Unlike the storage basket feti, the lid is not attached to the body of a sammua.