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gourd

human history
  • Description

    Gourd

    Made from calabash, lime, pigment, paper, and plant fibre. A hollowed gourd with a small opening with neck that flares towards body, the body is spherical. The gourd has a brown coloured base with carved designs of cross-hatched and bands, cross hatch is coloured with white lime, the bands are coloured black. The top opening has a paper stopper with a dried plant fibre rope

  • Place
    Congo/Africa
  • Accession Number
    1986.192
  • Accession Date
    13 Aug 1986
  • Other Id

    52103 (ethnology)

  • Department

    World

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