Minimal

2,060-yr-old gourd bowl from McClung MuseumI chose the gourd bowl.  I like how minimalist it is, but also fully functional and extremely useful.  In order to make this particular bowl, you would literally just find a gourd and chop it in half.  It would probably have to be dried, but then you would have a bowl.  

However, these bowls were not perfect.  They were probably more fragile than many of the bowls that we have today, hence the crack in the gourd bowl.  This bowl had an attempted repair on it.  Someone drilled small holes and tried to weave on the broken-off piece.  We have similar bowls today that arebetter made because of technology.

Modern wooden bowl