Decorated Calabash

Decorated Calabash

A spherical board painted or enameled in white and decorated with strips and cut-out patterns of red, yellow, green and black leather; the sphere is halved, latitudinally with a strip of black leather accented by small rectangles of covered leather; 4 red yellow striped strips of leather, placed equidistance apart, longitudinally dissect the gourd; the sections between are decorated with variously shaped "snowflake"- like cut-outs. Tribes (Hausa, Niger, Benin, Ijebu) dried gourd fruit.

092619998

Painted Wood Shells
Leather

1998.17

Africa

20in high