Gourd rest

Museum number:

3-23206

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Accession number:

Acc.2252

Description:

Ring of twisted vine (Adenocalymna fissum); For balancing round bottomed gourd dishes on flat surfaces and suspending them from roof beams. Diameter 8.2cm. See field notes in accession envelope.

Donor:

Francisco Burgos-Cen and Family

Collection place:

Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico

Verbatim coll. place:

Mexico; Eastern Yucatán; Chichén Itza

Culture or time period:

Maya

Collector:

Susan Weikel Palmer

Collection date:

January 1967

Object type:

ethnography

Accession date:

1967

Department:

Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area

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