Bowl

2003-72-133

From: Senegal

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-72-133
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Senegal
Section African
Materials Calabash
Description

Calabash gourd bowl with a small, curved handle at the rim. The exterior has incised decorations of circumferal lines below the rim, repeating leaf-shape designs below that, then another set of circumferal lines. The center of the exterior has a star shape rays between the points of the star extending out to a ring of arches surrounding the design. The center of the star has two small circles, one within the other, and short rays extending outward.

Height 13 cm
Outside Diameter 24 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1900.1.2063 - Other Number | 15082 - Other Number | 345 - Other Number | 222 - Other Number

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