old calabash w/ swollen base; covered w/ varicolored glass beads sewn to blue cloth; two rows of shirt buttons at base; a) container; H. 51 cm.; b) stopper of bead-covered wood; H. 10 cm.
Donor:
The Calvin K. and Doreen B. Townsend Donation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Cameroon
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Cameroon; Ba-Ngwa (Murdock ... 30:1)
Collector:
Calvin Townsend Fund and Harry H. Rayfield
Collection date:
Dec. 1966
Materials:
Calabash [remove], Glass (material), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1967
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
b— height 10 centimeters and a— height 51 centimeters