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The object is a broken off part of a gourd. Different types of bottle gourds are used throughout Africa (south of the Sahara) and around the world as food, decoration, for making vessels and utensils, e.g. musical instruments, and as fishing buoys. Since no special carvings or engravings are present, it is difficult to to attribute this object to a specific (African) ethnic society or to decipher the exact purpose for which this object was used. The collector and the exact circumstances of the acquisition circumstances remain unclear to date (processing status: 2023). Due to the presumed colonial context of the collection, the object should still be categorised as sensitive.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
Length: 30.5 cm, diameter: 4 cm
Material/Technique
Fruit peel/sliced
Current location
Museum Burg Mylau
Inventory number
V 15262 N

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Africa (?)

Information about the record

Funding
The project "Provenance and History of the Mylau/Reichenbach Ethnological Collection" was 2022/23 funded by the Center for the Loss of Cultural Assets, the State Office for Museums Saxony and the Vogtland-Zwickau cultural area.
Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED

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