Baobab Nut
31-33-169
From: Australia | Western Australia | Derby, Western Australia
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 31-33-169 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Australia | Western Australia | Derby, Western Australia |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Baobab Nut |
| Technique | Carved |
| Description | Large baobab pod, no stem. The dark outer skin has been scratched to produce designs by revealing the lighter colored woody layer below. Design is naturalistic, consisting of branches of leaves, an emu, boomerang, mushrooms (?), etc. "Showing third type of native carving." Many cracks, once glued? |
| Length | 17.8 cm |
| Width | 14.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 14.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from A. E. West, 1931 |
| Other Number | 81 - Other Number |
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