Round gourd with long thin neck, circular hole cut in body

Item

Title

Round gourd with long thin neck, circular hole cut in body
Gourd, for enema [Memo Book, 1936]

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Medicine

Description

Round gourd with long thin neck, circular hole cut in body, used as a funnel for enemas. [NSty 08/21]
This small gourd used for enemas is called a lunyonge according to the Duplicate Memorandum Book (see below).

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c. 1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Gourd; Plant

Identifier

ETH.ANG2.462
A36/462
1550 (Old Number)

Source

Diana and Antoinette Powell-Cotton
1936
Duplicate Memorandum Book with pencil writing 'Angola 1936' on cover - p. 66
Duplicate Memorandum Book with pencil writing ‘Angola 1936’ on cover
The Powell-Cotton Museum

Space/Place

12km south of Mupa.
[HFD 19/07/2021]
Angola
Africa
Cultural group: Tchokwe/Tchibokwe

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust

Item sets

PCM object collections
Restoring location, exhibiting space and mapping absence