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Carved half calabash with central decoration of a view of the penal colony of Ile du Diable * whose name is indicated below, work of a local convict (Guyana), XIXth century.
This nut is in good condition.
A note: slit on the left side, some wear of time, see photos.
* The Devil's Island is one of the three Salvation Islands, so baptized by Jean-Baptiste Thibault de Chanvalon (or Chanvallon) in 1763, in Guyana, when settlers who survived the epidemics raging on the coast settled there from Kourou. The Devil's Island would have been baptized thus by the Galibis Indians, who made this rocky island devoid of vegetation the residence of Iroucan, that is to say of the spirit of evil.
Attached administratively to the town of Cayenne, this small rocky island, 1,200 meters long and 400 wide, today covered with palm trees, served as a penal colony for political prisoners from France and common law detainees.
