Beer Calabash (Kilele)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 May 1982
label: Collection Date
content: 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Peter Seitel
label: Donor Name
content: Smithsonian Folklife Program
notes: label: Notes
content: UNDECORATED, LONG-NECKED CALABASH; GLOBULAR BODY, SLIGHT SWELLING NEAR TOP OF NECK. FITTED WITH A STOPPER FORMED BY TYING NARROW STRIPS OF PAPYRUS INTO A TASSEL SHAPE. INSERTED INTO THE CENTER OF THE PAPYRUS STOPPER (12CM. LONG) IS A STRAW (69CM. LONG) REACHING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE CALABAS. "THIS KIND OF STOPPER IS USED IN A KILELE...AND MARKS A CALABASH USED AS A PERSONAL DRINKING VESSEL. GROWN AND USED BY ZAVELIO GABRIELI BUSHELI. PUT IN USE ABOUT 1974"-P. SEITEL.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Nshekasheke Village, Tanzania, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haya
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 349806
label: USNM Number
content: E422171-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Calabash
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 60 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 17 cm