Incised Calabash and Lid
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Aug 2002
label: Collection Date
content: 1965
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: Round calabash, dried, skinned, and cut in half to make a container with lid. Carved with lines, half circles, and cross-hatching. Some of the lines are darkened with pencil. The donor says "unlike the Peul calabashes in both design and technique: the dry skin is completely removed on the Hausa ones I saw, although the designs are burnt in the same way. The Peul ones (with skin) are far more functional. I think this may have been a "tourist" piece, not for foreigners, but for locals. The Ghanaian colleague I was travelling with bought several for his wife back home."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Zaria, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hausa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2023032
label: USNM Number
content: E431559-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Container
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Lid
content: 15.5 cm
label: Diameter - Bowl
content: 15.7 cm
label: Total Height
content: 9.5 cm