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Calabash bowl

Large bowl (D 32 cm) made of pumpkin with lid, carved and decorated with ornaments, braided bast cord connects bowl and lid

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Data Provider
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ejagham
Object type
Schale
Dimensions
Lid D 31 cm; bowl D 32 cm H approx. 18 cm
Material/Technique
Pumpkin, bast
scribed, braided
Object genre
vessel
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2384
Other number(s)
2384 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    where
    Cross River-Gebiet
    Region Südwesten
    Kamerun
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    before 1906
    where
    Cross River-Gebiet
    Region Südwesten
    Kamerun
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
    who
    Mansfeld, Alfred - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    1906
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Description
    A. Mansfeld donated the object to the Linden Museum.
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
    Description
    JGU Mainz received object in exchange with Linden-Museum.

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED
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