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lime gourd

Lime gourd, made from a hollowed-out calabash, with elaborate ornamental decorations in black. A piece is broken off at the top and traces of a repair can be seen. 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: 27 × 11 cm
Material/Technique
Calabash; pumpkin hollowed out; painted
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D12865
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D12865

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1900-1900
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Nauer, Karl - Collectors
  • Publishing
    Description
    Oceania Collection Voyages - Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/people/Oceania-Collection-Voyages/100083002609221/ (last accessed on: 31/08/2023)
  • 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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