Carved calabash (Crescentia Cujeta) from British Guiana, ca. 1885
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1885
notes: label: Description
content: Carved calabash (Crescentia Cujeta) from British Guiana, ca. 1885. Original cataloging notes "carved by a native." One of a group of fiber samples given by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, in 1885, to the US National Museum's economic botany collection.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Guyana
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Fibers & Economic Botany
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T00650
label: catalog number
content: T650
label: accession number
content: 16188
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calabashes, batch of
label: Object Name
content: calabash
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gourd (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: carved (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 11 7/8 in x 10 in; 9.2075 cm x 30.1625 cm x 25.4 cm