bowl
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.469
- Description
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Bowl; made of gourd; painted with commercial paints; painted black outside with white bird, three yellow and white flowers, green leaves, blue border with white diamonds, red rim; red inside with blue swan on green grass next to blue water, green tree either side, blue band with white diamonds around rim.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 13 centimetres
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Height: 7 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Gourds of this type which are painted with commercial paint can hold liquids (unlike lacquered examples). They are widely sold in markets in Mexico. They are used to hold water, chocolate and other drinks, or occasionally worn on the head in parts of Oaxaca, or in San Pablito in Puebla. See Sayer, Chloë. Crafts of Mexico. New York: Doubleday, 1977, p. 70.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1977-1978, London, Horniman Museum
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Acquisition notes
- Objects collected during the 1970s by Chloë Sayer and Marcos Ortiz. They were exhibited in 1977-1978 at the Horniman Museum, and later acquired by the British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1978,15.469