Donor Name:

Glen Island Museum Of Natural History  Search this

Object Type:

Gourd

Place:

West Africa, Africa

Accession Date:

2 Nov 1894

Notes:

FROM CARD: "CARVED."

Listed on page 60 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans (Musical)". Listed twice, as "calabash" and "gourds" -- so perhaps in total referring to all three in this set.

Record Last Modified:

9 Jun 2023

Specimen Count:

3

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

028638

USNM Number:

E169008-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3db437ad0-3aea-4074-bef3-f77ea59bda58

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8349150