Calabash Bottle
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Calabash Bottle
The hollowed-out and dried skins of calabashes or gourds (pumpkin-like plants) were widely used as containers or to make bowls and bottles in parts of Africa, they were also often richly decorated. This example from Nigeria is 287 mm high.
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