Calabash Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Apr 1968
name: label: Collector
content: Donald C. Butts
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. K W. Butts
notes: label: Notes
content: HALF-HEMISPHERE OF CALABASH CUT LONGITUDINALLY WITH STEM JOINT BISECTED. DECORATED ON INNER SURFACE WITH IRREGULAR INCISED CARV INGS. IN BUSH NEGRO [sic] SOCIETY CALABASHES ARE TRADITIONALLY THE ONLY OBJECTS WOMEN ARE ALLOWED TO CARVE. THOSE DECORATED ON THE INSIDE ARE CARVED ONLY BY WOMEN. THE DESIGNS USED BY WOMEN TEND TO BE MORE ANGULAR AND ASYMMETRICAL. (SEE P. DARK 1954 BUSH NEGRO ART: AN AFRICAN ART IN THE AMERICAS, pp. 39-40.)
label: Notes
content: The Recovering Voices Community Research Visit of Matawai Maroons from Suriname took place September 8-19, 2018. These comments were made by community members, elder Jozef Dennert, bassia Tina Henkie, and Rolien Sallons on Friday, September 14, 2018. The group conferred on comments to make about the collections objects so all notes are attributed to the group as a whole. The Matawai word for this is "kuja." It is small to drink from. Calabash is essential for maroons. We can use it for anything. We always plant it to have the tree nearby. Bigger can be cooked with.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Suriname, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Suriname Maroon
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 277656
label: USNM Number
content: E409779-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl