Object Details
- Description
- Carved calabash (Crescentia Cujeta) from British Guiana, ca. 1885. Original cataloging notes "carved by a native." One of a group of fiber samples given by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, in 1885, to the US National Museum's economic botany collection.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca. 1885
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England
- Physical Description
- gourd (overall material)
- carved (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 5/8 in x 11 7/8 in x 10 in; 9.2075 cm x 30.1625 cm x 25.4 cm
- Object Name
- calabashes, batch of
- calabash
