Beer Calabash "Olushubu"
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. FITTED WITH A STOPPER FORMED BY TYING NARROW STRIPS OF PAPYRUS INTO A TASSEL SHAPE. INSERTED INTO THE CENTER OF STOPPER (9.5CM. LONG) IS A STRAW (56.5CM. LONG) REACHING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE CALABASH. "THIS TYPE....USED EITHER AS A PERSONAL DRINKING VESSEL OF A WOMAN OR AS A DECANTER....FOR HONORED GUEST. A GIFT....TO DONOR BY WINIFRED KISIRAGA....PUT IN USE 1979."-P. SEITEL.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Ngera Village, Ibwere Township, Kagera Region, 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: E422175-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Calabash
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 43 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 16 cm