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Calabash lid

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Braided calabash lid with broad black patterns running around the object. High bell shape, ending in two horn-like extensions at the closed end. Described in the original catalogue as "Pomber tube for straining banana drink. Uganda, Kasoja and west coast of Lake Victoria".

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
keine Zuschreibung
Object type
Calabash lid
Dimensions
H: 53 cm; D: 15 cm
Material/Technique
Fibre, vegetable (undetermined)
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg
Inventory number
LMNM_1113

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before December 1897
  • Change of physical control:
    Unknown type of acquisition
    where
    Africa, East Africa, Uganda, Lake Victoria
    who
    Friedrich Langheld - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    1897
    where
    State Museum of Nature and Man Oldenburg
    who
    Friedrich Langheld

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CC0 1.0 DEED

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