Container Item Number: C111 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A small egg-shaped orange-red gourd (part a) decorated with red and white beads with a cowrie shells which hangs loose at each side. Very shallow pricked line design. The stopper (part b) is rolled bark with a woven grass design around the sides of brown and black diagonal lines.
History Of Use
For lime
Item History
- Made in Papua, Indonesia before 1927
- Collected between 1895 and 1927
- Owned by Frank Burnett before 1927
- Received from Frank Burnett (Donor) on July 25, 1927
What
- Name
- Container
- Identification Number
- C111 a-b
- Type of Item
- container
- Material
- fibre, cowrie shell, glass and gourd fruit
- Manufacturing Technique
- twisted, carved and woven
- Overall
- height 10.8 cm, diameter 7.0 cm
- Part A
- height 9.3 cm, diameter 7.0 cm
- Part B
- height 2.3 cm, diameter 1.7 cm
Who
- Culture
- West Papuan
- Previous Owner
- Frank Burnett
- Received from
- Frank Burnett (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Papua, Indonesia
When
- Creation Date
- before 1927
- Collection Date
- between 1895 and 1927
- Ownership Date
- before 1927
- Acquisition Date
- on July 25, 1927
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 2191/0531 a-b