Unknown
Shaker Gourd
Unknown, 1900-1932
Scroll
Unknown
Shaker Gourd
Unknown, 1900-1932
Physical Qualities
Gourd, cotton string, beads of metal, glass, and seeds, 58 L x 13 Diam cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.460
Shaker gourd with netting with metal, glass, and seed beads; netting braided at end.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1923-1929 by the parents of donor (Bruce Bussell): Conrad Turner Bussell and Pauline Bussell. Mr. Bussell was sent by the U.S. Government under President Calvin Coolidge to survey the boundaries of Liberia. He was, instead, made Supervisor of Customs by President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia, and later made Financial Advisor to President King. Mrs. Bussell arrived in 1926.
Culture
Unknown
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