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Gourd for holding lime

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.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

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

  • Change of legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    January 1929
    who
    Plähn, Rudolf - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    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
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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