lime-spatula
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.478
- Description
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Wooden lime spatula carved from the whole. Circular finial carved with concentric circle with zigzag border at centre; two v-shape sections below with central triangular cut-outs, decorated with short curving horizontal lines; vertical line down centre. Blade foreshortened with rough, flakey end and red-brown colouration. Same decoration both sides.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Length: 18.90 centimetres
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Thickness: 1.60 centimetres
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Width: 5.90 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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"Waga Waga" rest of label not legible. Daniels Ethnographcal Expedition Label.
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Expedition label stamped DANIELS ETHNOGRAPHICAL EXPEDITION written in black ink (now faded) reads: 'Wagawaga... [illegible] maker'; continues in pencil '[bracket second word] WCD) Place & maker... [?unknown] CGS'. BM register notes in pencil: 'Place of make unknown'. Comment by Heather Donoghue, Ph.D candidate, UEA, 2020.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1906,1013.478