Coconut shell

Museum number:
3-1920
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.524
Description:
Coconut shell; lacquered black; elaborately carved open work: human figures and plant forms; one end a fish mouth and eyes made of shell buttons, (one missing) Slot in top. Breakage. Diameter 8 cm. Length 12.0 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Olinalá, Guerrero, Mexico
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Accession date:
1917
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coconut shell, accession number 3-1920, described as Coconut shell; lacquered black; elaborately carved open work: human figures and plant forms; one end a fish mouth and eyes made of shell buttons, (one missing) Slot in top. Breakage. Diameter 8 cm. Length 12.0 cm.

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