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These small baskets are likely trinket baskets. The colored fibers are dyed using natural sources.
-Zulu: Use Ilala palm fronds and dye them with mud, flowers, charcoal, bark, roots, and other materials. They also use specific roots, leaves, and berries to obtain a variety of colors.
-Bayei and Hambukushu (Botswana): Use bark and roots from two different trees, along with decomposing sorghum husks and shrub leaves, to create colors for their baskets made from mokola palm tree fiber.
-Tutsi (Rwanda): Used banana flowers for black and the root and seeds of the Urukamgi plant for red
