Calabash
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1980 - 2006
Materials
Calabash Leather
Measurements
154 x 245 x 224 mm
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575 Wandsworth Road, London
NT 1513264
Summary
An African carved hardwood calabash bowl. Of hollow oval form, with a tied leather strap for a handle to one side and four vertical bands of punch marked decoration to four opposing sides, beneath four low relief carved decorative rectangles.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Khadambi Asalache upon his death in 2006; acquired fully in November 2010.