Bowl
- Museum number:
- 3-16555
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030016555
- Alternate number:
- 7b (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2053
- Description:
- round tree gourd (dita) for drinking utensil, scoop, food container; incised decoration
- Donor:
- Carlos Nagel and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- San Sebastian, Puerto Rico
- Collector:
- Carlos Nagel
- Collection date:
- October 2, 1965
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Bowls (vessels) and Gourds (plant components)
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Comment:
- Used by everyone in the remote areas; being supplanted by plastic or metal. Made from the fruit of calabash tree, Higuero (Crescentia cujete L). Made by mr. Toridio Perez at cost of $ .25. Incised decorations made by a knife blade pushed across the surface with a rocking motion. Sometime pieces of glass or tin may be used.
- Loans:
- S1971-1972 #44: Oakland Museum of California (November 4, 1971–November 10, 1971)
- Legacy documentation:
-