Small Gourd, Ornamented
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Dec 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: James T. Brown
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is described on p. 89 of Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off. It is identified there as "Idol. A species of the gourd family (Leginaria vulgaris) obtained by a whaleman from a small island near the coast of New Guinea, East Indies. As near as the captain of the vessel could understand from the pantomimic gestures of the natives, it was worshipped as an idol, and represented the "organs of generation, or principle of life." - John H. Thomson. New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1882. Gift of John H. Thomson."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New Guinea / Irian Jaya (Western New Guinea/Papua) (not certain), Indonesia (not certain) / Papua New Guinea (not certain), Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00028
label: USNM Number
content: E68138-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gourd