- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Thick husk of a lobed fruit, with one end cut off. Used as a bowl, as a substitute for pottery.
- Geographical reference
- San Blas Islands
- Cultural groups
- Guna
- Person
- Field collector Lilian Mabel Alice Richmond Brown
- Field collector Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges
- PRM source Lilian Mabel Alice Richmond Brown
- PRM source Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1922
- Date collected
- 1922
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1924
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Fruit Husk
- Dimensions
- Height 110 mm, Diameter: max 120 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1924.46.91
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