Ethnography and Folk Medicine
1880-1920
Medicine man's gourd in leather sheath with contents, West African, 1880-1920
Smoking
1907-1910
Gourd calabash tobacco pipe bowl, mouthpiece missing, U-shaped, trumpet shaped bowl, silver lid assayed in Birmingham, made by A.B. and Co., bowl English, 1907-1910
1909-1911
Calabash tobacco pipe, funnel shaped bowl with curling tubular stem, silver bowl rim and joint band, assayed in Birmingham 1910-1911, D and U, makers, English, 1909-1911
1860-1910
Calabash tobacco pipe, European, 1860-1910
Pharmacy-ware
1601-1700
A spice box, made from a gourd, silver mounted top, containing cloves, engraved coat-of-arms on stopper possibly 17th century
Large oval shaped gourd container with one end truncated
Possibly a spice box, made from a gourd, silver mounted top, I.R. engraved on stopper, possibly 17th century
1901-1932
Enema made from gourd, African, 20th century
Small orange gourd, filled with grass and seeds, used by medicine man, Congo, West Africa, 1880-1920
1800-1922
Lime box made from a gourd, Massim district, New Guinea
Gourd, containing bundles of fibre, used as protection against evil spirits, used in annual ritual, East African, 1880-1920
Asian Medicine
1701-1900
Ivory netsuke, in the form of Gama Sennin, with leaf mantle and holding gourd, Japanese, 1701-1900
Ivory carving, possibly a netsuke, in the form of two pods on a stem, possibly representing gourds, Japanese, 1701-1900
Wooden netsuke, in the form of a man, possibly Sennin, bearded, wearing a leaf skirt and a gourd, carrying another figure on his shoulders who is holding a fish, Japanese, 1701-1900
1880-1930
Very large vessel of gourd, bulbous with vertical stright neck which swells just before the tapered rim, Ugandan, 1880-1930
1890-1920
Gourd container, globular tapering towards tubular neck, stopper tubular decorated with interwoven cane pattern, Soloman Islands, 1890-1920
Bone netsuke, in form of a man, probably Sennin, wearing a leaf skirt and holding a staff, and with a gourd on his back, Japanese, 1701-1900
Ivory netsuke, in the form of a man holding a gourd, Japanese, 1701-1900
Wooden netsuke, in the form of a man standing with a gourd in one hand and another over his shoulder, Japanese, 1701-1900
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
1830-1920
Gourd of unknown provenance, 1830-1920
1871-1938
Gourd filled with snake bite antidote composed of dried materia medica (?), African, 1871 to 1938
1920-1927
Calabash, dumbell-shaped, from the display of Ibibio medicine man, surrounded by his equipment, Nigerian, 1920-1927
1871-1930
Specimen jar containing gourd seeds from India
2 gourds, one spherical, the other dumb-bell shaped
1801-1900
Large gourd bottle, globular body, funnel-shaped neck, rope tied round neck, empty container from the Turkish Drug shop exhibition, Middle Eastern, 19th century
Small gourd bottle containing curare, South American
1920-1940
Specimen bottle of Citrullus vulgaris seeds, Tindu Kebij, gourd seeds, India, 1920-1940
Bell attached to dumbell-shaped calabash, from the display of Ibibio medicine man, surrounded by his equipment, Nigerian, 1920-1927
1886
Corked dried gourd containing poison-antidote and colocynth (?), from South Africa, 1886
