lime-spatula
- Museum number
- Oc,+.4623
- Description
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Lime spatula of black wood, with open clapper handle. Ornamented with incised designs and red glass beads, vegetable fibre.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1890)
- Curator's comments
- Christy collection registration slip, written in 1890?:
New Guinea, S.E.
Lime spatula, of black wood, with open clapper handle, engraved with locking wave pattern +c, and ornamented with red glass beads.
"1000. Lime knife. Louisiades"
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1890
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by A.W. Franks Esq 15 March 1890 (Bevan Colln Sotheby's)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.4623
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1890C2.4623 (old CDMS no.)