Bowl

2003-72-130

From: Senegal

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-72-130
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Senegal
Section African
Materials Calabash
Description

Calabash gourd bowl with a small handle at the rim. The exterior has incised decorations of circumferal lines below the rim, repeating leaf-shaped designs below that, then another set of circumferal lines. The center of the exterior has a cross filled with cross-hatching, somewhat rectangular shapes filled with parallel lines between the arms of the crosses, and zigzags between the rectangles.

Height 9 cm
Outside Diameter 19 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1900.1.2062 - Other Number | 15065 - Other Number | 765 - Other Number

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