Calabash bowl

Museum number:
3-26888
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2897
Description:
Bowl; made of lower half of a tree calabash; lacquered in the rayado technique; black lacquered background, plant forms and borders, animals in blue relief
Donor:
Katharine D. Jenkins and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Olinalá, Guerrero, Mexico
Collector:
Katharine D. Jenkins
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Gourds (plant components)
Accession date:
January 17, 1973
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Calabash bowl, accession number 3-26888, described as Bowl; made of lower half of a tree calabash; lacquered in the rayado technique; black lacquered background, plant forms and borders, animals in blue relief

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