Calabashes

Museum number:
5-1743a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-1881a,b (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1370
Description:
(a) one-half of carved calabash; 8 1/2" dia, 4 1/2" h; (b) other half of calabash; 8" dia, 4 1/2" h. [handwritten on card: 20.5 cm dia-11.5 cm h.]
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1937-1938
Materials:
Calabash [remove]
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1960
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 11.43 centimeters and diameter 21.59 centimeters
Comment:
collected at Ife in 1937-38. cracked and glued Notation on card appears to read, “at school, not_______”; PAHMA Storage Loc: W-12-2
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Calabashes, accession number 5-1743a,b, described as (a) one-half of carved calabash; 8 1/2" dia, 4 1/2" h; (b) other half of calabash; 8" dia, 4 1/2" h. [handwritten on card: 20.5 cm dia-11.5 cm h.]
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Calabashes, accession number 5-1743a,b, described as (a) one-half of carved calabash; 8 1/2" dia, 4 1/2" h; (b) other half of calabash; 8" dia, 4 1/2" h. [handwritten on card: 20.5 cm dia-11.5 cm h.]Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Calabashes, accession number 5-1743a,b, described as (a) one-half of carved calabash; 8 1/2" dia, 4 1/2" h; (b) other half of calabash; 8" dia, 4 1/2" h. [handwritten on card: 20.5 cm dia-11.5 cm h.]

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