Calabash for lime | Photographer: Larissa Arlt, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 InternationalCalabash for lime | Photographer: Larissa Arlt, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 InternationalCalabash for lime | Photographer: Larissa Arlt, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 InternationalCalabash for lime | Photographer: Larissa Arlt, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 International
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Calabash for lime
The calabash is used to store lime (used for the consumption of the pray), it can be filled through the opening (filled with shell fragments, tortoiseshell, coix lacrimae and seeds), the rod serves as a closure and for retrieving the lime (through ring-shaped notches)
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Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
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Object type
Kalebasse
Dimensions
Pumpkin: L 44, 5 cm D max. 5 cm; stick: L 62 cm D max. 1 cm
Material/Technique
gourds (plant components), Grass seed, tortoise shell, cowrie shell, wood (plant material)
carved, glued
carved, glued
Object genre
vessel
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2091
Other number(s)
Linden-Museum: 92496
2091
2091
Provenance and sources
when
before 1912
where
Sepik-Region
where
Stuttgart
when
1912/13
where
Papua-Neuguinea
who
Berliner Sepik-Expedition 1912/13 - Owners
when
15.12.1971
where
Stuttgart
Description
Came to Mainz "together with 636 other objects in exchange for 732 objects from Pakistan and Afghanistan" (Brandstetter, Hierholzer 2018).
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