Gourd cup

Museum number:

3-15821a

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Accession number:

Acc.1960

Description:

Gourd cup, crescentia cujete ("tree gourd"); painted black with floral designs incised through paint; strung together with b-d with red, orange, and green cord.

Donor:

Kathleen Morehouse

Collection place:

Guatemala

Collector:

Emma Lang Morehouse and Herbert Harrison Morehouse

Collection date:

March 1965

Taxon:

Crescentia cujete

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Cups (drinking vessels) and Gourds (plant components)

Accession date:

1965

Department:

Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area