This basket is made of palm leaves and was crafted in N’Djamena in Chad during 2011. Its large type is used to display spices at the market.
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.