lime-spatula
- Museum number
- Oc,+.1846
- Description
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Lime-spatula of bone, ornamented at top with a semicircular projection of plaited fibre, edged with cut nassa shells; and having as a pendant a brown seed used as a rattle, and two loops, one with a ring ornamented with cut nassa shells. Cut coix seeds are threaded on the string leading to the brown seed.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1883)
- Dimensions
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Length: 12.50 inches (from original registration)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1883
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.1846
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1883C2.1846 (old CDMS no.)