He bent the flexible coil so that it passed into a large calabash sawed in half, and out, through a watertight joint, after a dozen turns.

As we sat awaiting her, a man entered, bearing a large calabash full of palm-wine.

Meanwhile, the vegetables are rinsed in a large calabash filled with water.

Young followed them to a shady spot where they sluiced their bodies with water from a large calabash.

Even the fact that he had a large calabash of absolutely putrid hippo-dripping failed to console him.

It was composed principally of large empty calabashes, with a few polished cocoa-nut shells, and looked not unlike a cenotaph of skulls.

In their wedding ceremonies music is played by males with large calabash trumpets (was'a).

A large calabash from the Wodaabe people of Niger is delicately covered with an incised pattern of triangles, rectangles and parallel lines.

Previously, drums were outlawed for slaves, and the bastèl, a large calabash in a water barrel, was used instead.

A visitor to any African village in the 1800s would have been offered a large calabash of cool fermented milk as a greeting.