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Gourd for holding lime
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A calabash used as a container for betel chalk. The gourdes were specially cultivated to make calabashes in the interior of Manus, the main island of the Admiralty Islands. The dumbbell shape is made by constricting the fruit during growth.Collected by Wilhelm Lebahn, Captain of the Imperial Navy Survey Ship S.M.S. Planet.

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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Kalebasse
Dimensions
Diameter: 80.0 mm
Length: 210.0 mm
: 260.0 mm
Material/Technique
Calabash
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1956

Provenance and sources

when
January 1929
who
Plähn, Rudolf - Former Possessors
where
Admiralty Islands (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)
Manus (location/origin)
who
Lebahn, Wilhelm - Collectors

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