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lime gourd

Lime gourd, made from a hollowed-out calabash, with elaborate ornamental decorations in black. The upper opening is unsealed. "Nauer" is written in pencil on the pumpkin at the narrow point in the middle.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
containers (receptacles)
Dimensions
General: 18 × 8.6 cm
Material/Technique
Calabash; pumpkin hollowed out; painted
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D12874
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D12874

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1900-1900
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Nauer, Karl - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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