Bottle Gourd
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: GOURD BOTTLE WITH ROUNDED, BULBOUS BODY AND NARROW, ELONGATED NECK. THE MAJORITY OF THE GOURD HAS BEEN DECORATED WITH DESIGNS APPLIED IN A DARKER SHADE, EMPLOYING SOME SORT OF RESIST METHOD. DESIGNS ARE ROUGHLY LARGE TRIANGULAR SECTIONS WHICH HAVE WAVY LINES DRAWN WITHIN THEM. HAS "902" (PEALE NUMBER) WRITTEN ON BOTTOM. THIS OBJECT WAS REMOVED FROM PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1984, AND EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, N.M.N.H., 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 902 as "Gourd used for carrying water."
label: Notes
content: Designs on gourd were produced by cutting through the outer skin of the gourd and scraping sections away. The gourd was then dyed, most probably either by external application/soaking of pigment/black mud, which turned the sections where the outer skin was removed black/dark, or, the pigment/black mud was placed inside the gourd and the colored liquid seeped through the sections where the gourd wall had been scraped away.
label: Notes
content: Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3570-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gourd
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 34 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 24 cm