His first stop? The supermarket. A large, green calabash gourd caught his eye, and inspiration struck. Why not use it as a cooking pot? As a scout, he had cooked in green papayas, coconuts and bamboo.

Calabash nutmeg (Monodora myristica), also known as African nutmeg, is a lesser-known but culturally significant spice native to Africa. It has been used for centuries in traditional medicine and ...

Like in other communities, the calabash among the Asians is used for storage, serving or feeding. The collection includes long and shallow gourds from pastoralist communities, the Kalenjin gourds ...

In Chinese music, gourds fall into one of the eight categories ... [4] The sheng was invented when people stuck bamboo pipes into a calabash and blew air into it to make musical notes.

Photo by: Silverbackpacker The "kattukong" or "tabúngaw" is a unique and functional piece of traditional Ilocano headgear, ingeniously crafted from the hollowed and dried calabash gourd ...