Gourd bowl

Museum number:

3-28984a

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Accession number:

Acc.3707

Description:

Gourds, cut longitudinally, various leaf designs incised in brown epicarp to stand out in low relief against lighter inner part of the rind. A -- lg. -7.5cm

Donor:

Edgar C. Altermatt, Katharine D. Jenkins, and Mrs. Edgar C. Altermatt

Collection place:

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

Collector:

Katharine D. Jenkins

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Bowls (vessels) and Gourds (plant components)

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

February 24, 1982

Department:

Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area