This basket is used to carry clay-pots with water and comes from Farchana, eastern Chad, dated in 2010. It is a wooden, hemispherical basketlike construction consisting of 3 hoops and 15 meridians and binding with leather. The clay pot is placed inside the basket and the whole is carried by donkeys. This is a way to carry water in arid locations in Chad.
Chad hosts more than one million forcibly displaced people, including 300,000 internally displaced and 580,000 refugees from conflicts in neighboring Sudan, the Central African Republic and Cameroon. More than 125,000 refugees and asylum seekers from the Central African Republic have fled to Chad escaping different waves of violence since 2005.