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Description: | Carved container made from a whole coconut, which has had the top cut off to form a circular hole 8 cm in diameter. The nut is engraved with two shallow rings around this mouth and a bold pattern of interlocking isosceles triangles around its middle. The upper ring and the triangles are painted red while the lower ring is painted black. The nut has a large crack down one side and has two holes pierced near its mouth through which is threaded a loop of leaf strips.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 4.179 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | containers (containers) coconut leaf pigment | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-67091 | Go to resource |
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