Lime Gourd Bag
2003-32-225
From: Solomon Islands | Santa Cruz Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-225 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Solomon Islands | Santa Cruz Islands |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Lime gourd bag from Santa Cruz. See Force and Force, 277230, p. 258. (Also girdles on pp. 255, 256) Civic Center exhibition tag attributes it to New Caledonia and dates it to Ca. 1900, so probably from Paris Exposition of 1900. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
| Height | 19.5 cm |
| Width | 15 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1993.X.209 - Other Number | CIVIC1993.X.209 - Other Number |
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