Cricket gourd - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99775 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 75.00 CUCURBITACEAE Lagenaria siceraria | Entry Book Number | 13.2017 | |
| Artefact Name | Cricket gourd | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Cricket gourd | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Cricket gourdUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Haynes, B. J. | Donor No | 59 | ||
| Donor Date | 18/05/2017 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Haynes, B. J. | Collector No | 59 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Gourd used to keep pet crickets during winter, while amplifying their 'singing' (stridulation). In antiquity, Chinese people started keeping Crickets as pets. Gourds were grown inside a special mold to give them the desired shape. See: Heiser, C. (1993)., The Gourd Book. Ocklahoma: University of Ocklahoma Press, p. 136-138 | ||||