{ "summary": { "title": "bowl" }, "identifier": [ { "accession_number": "HC.2021.31", "type": "accession number", "value": "HC.2021.31", "primary": true }, { "note": [ { "value": "labelled with former ED number (label states 'EX-ED Centre)" } ], "source": "label", "value": "ED.4" } ], "note": [ { "type": "catalogue note", "value": "One of several objects found at SCC in a box marked 'EX-Ed Centre'. These objects pre-date the cataloguing of the Handling Collection on Mimsy, and were never uploaded. They were sent to SCC for disposal several years ago and never diposed. Are now being considered for keeping\/disposal. Entry information not known.- Lucy Maycock, 21.9.21" } ], "loan": { "value": "Y" }, "description": [ { "type": "catalogue description", "value": "Small gourd bowl. Decorated with incised design and plack ink. Arrows or spears (?) design on base.", "primary": true }, { "attribution": { "attributor": "Maycock, Lucy" }, "type": "description", "value": "Small gourd bowl. Decorated with incised design and plack ink. Arrows or spears (?) design on base." } ], "language": [ "eng" ], "collection": "Anthropology", "type": { "sub_type": [ "general" ], "scope": "WHOLE", "base": "object" }, "@admin": { "processed": 1745949739659, "sequence": 7526079, "uid": "hmc-object-255789", "added": 1664637528406, "stream": "collections-online", "id": "object-255789", "source": "hmc", "uuid": "ea68f6b5-65ef-30c1-b571-18e80fd5cd53" }, "material": [ { "type": "catalogue materials", "value": "gourd", "primary": true } ], "legal": { "status": "handling collection" }, "name": [ { "type": "catalogue name", "value": "bowl", "primary": true }, { "@reference": { "summary": { "title": "bowls (containers)" }, "@link": { "role": [ { "value": "object name" } ], "variation": 142537 }, "@admin": { "uid": "hmc-term-504318", "id": "term-504318", "uuid": "c05cc46e-b9db-38e4-865f-42a85dadc64f" }, "@entity": "reference" }, "type": "object name" } ], "options": { "item_count": "1", "use": "gourds (calabashes) like this come in lots of different sizes. Gourds of this size are mostly used as bowls for food and liquid. Larger sized gourds are often used by women to carry things around on their head. To help balance it and spread the weight of the load, a head ring can be placed on the head and the gourd rests on top of it. Since they come in many sizes they have many different uses, from bathing a baby to making a musical instrument. \n\n\n\n\nWho is it used by and why them? ( 1 para) i.e a specific group or gender or specialist, why\nHollowed out half gourds such as this are common all over Africa and particularly in rural areas. They are used wherever the gourd plant grows so they are used by many different cultural groups in many different countries. They are mostly used for domestic chores and therefore mainly used by women. Since they come in many shapes and sizes they are very versatile and may be used at times by male and female, young and old alike.\n\nGourds are hard skinned fruits from the same plant family as melons, pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers. Most grow on vines and some on trees in tropical climates all over the world. They grow in different shapes and sizes and when hollowed out and dried they make excellent containers. Gourds are very versatile and their range of shapes and sizes makes them suitable for many different purposes. If they are not cut in half like this example a whole gourd is commonly used to carry water, store milk or home made beer. Whole elongated gourds can be cut in half and used as spoons. They also have many uses outside of the home. They make very good fishing floats and very large half gourds have even been used as boats! There is an annual festival in Nigeria where people take to the river in gourd boats. \nThe hard-shell gourd, being hollow, serves as a natural echo chamber. It is, therefore, not surprising to find that gourds have been used for thousands of years to amplify sound. Stretch some animal skin over the cut off end of a gourd and you have a drum. These drums are found most commonly in African countries. Gourds also serve as separate resonators or echo chambers in other instruments - the \u2018mbira\u2019 (thumb piano) of Africa and the wooden-keyed \u2018balafon\u2019 xylophone or \u2018marimba\u2019 of Africa and South America are often amplified with the addition of gourds.\nThe most obvious gourd musical instrument is a rattle \u2013 a dried gourd, with its seeds inside, will rattle when it is shaken. By cutting a few small holes or slits in the gourd, more of the sounds will he heard. By adding more stones or seeds the sound will change. Many people attach a handle to the gourd, making a shaker which is, nowadays, a very common percussion instrument. By adding a netting of beads, seeds, shells or pebbles to the outside of the gourd, the sounds become louder and creates a variety of different tones, depending on how the gourd is shaken or hit (eg sometimes with a stick).", "flag4": "N", "flag3": "N", "flag2": "N", "flag1": "N", "option2": "Gourds grow best in a dry climate as they mould and rot easily. When the gourd is fully dry it will be very light in weight, the seeds will rattle inside and the outer shell will be very hard. Only then is it ready to be prepared for use. The soft outer skin is scrubbed off and the hard outer skin can be carved, incised, burnt, painted or dyed for decoration, or even just polished to show its natural colours. Most gourds used as household utensils will be undecorated or very simply decorated. The patterns on this example have been carved in stripes around the bowl. The maker is unknown but this is a simple decoration that does not require a high level of skill. This gourd may have been made for the tourist market but is also fairly typical of the type of bowl used in many households." }, "appraisal": [ { "source": "catalogue", "@entity": "lifecycle" } ], "term": [ { "summary": { "title": "bowls (containers)" }, "@link": { "role": [ { "value": "object name" } ] }, "@admin": { "uid": "hmc-term-504318", "id": "term-504318", "uuid": "c05cc46e-b9db-38e4-865f-42a85dadc64f" }, "@entity": "reference" } ], "category": [ { "type": "category1", "value": "Education Handling Collection: Anthropology" } ], "facility": [ { "summary": { "title": "Shelf a" }, "@link": { "date": { "earliest": 2024, "value": "2024-01-03", "latest": 2024 }, "level5": "Shelf a", "level4": "Case 28", "current": "Y", "last": { "level5": "Shelf a", "level4": "Case 28", "location": "HMG - Forest Hill", "level1": "Horniman Museum", "level3": "Display", "level2": "Hands on Base" }, "purpose": "annual audit", "location": "HMG - Forest Hill", "level1": "Horniman Museum", "level3": "Display", "level2": "Hands on Base" }, "@admin": { "uid": "hmc-facility-10351", "id": "facility-10351", "uuid": "d493a201-fe55-3ece-869c-0e67444a6536" }, "@entity": "reference", "primary": true }, { "summary": { "title": "Shelf a" }, "@link": { "date": { "earliest": 2021, "value": "2021-10-06", "latest": 2021 }, "level5": "Shelf a", "level4": "Case 28", "current": "N", "role": [ { "value": "historical" } ], "purpose": "Regular storage", "moved": { "by": "Maycock, Lucy" }, "location": "HMG - Forest Hill", "level1": "Horniman Museum", "level3": "Display", "level2": "Hands on Base" }, "@admin": { "uid": "hmc-facility-10351", "id": "facility-10351", "uuid": "d493a201-fe55-3ece-869c-0e67444a6536" }, "@entity": "reference" } ], "creation": { "place": [ { "summary": { "title": "Africa" }, "@link": { "source": "catalogue" }, "name": [ { "value": "Africa" } ], "@entity": "literal" }, { "summary": { "title": "Africa" }, "@admin": { "uid": "hmc-place-93", "id": "place-93", "uuid": "9107eb54-cca2-350d-b523-366a2d0dda96" }, "@entity": "reference" } ] }, "measurements": { "count": "1" } }