lime-container
- Museum number
- Oc1979,07.69.a
- Description
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Register 1979:
Gourd lime container, orangey brown colour.
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.70 centimetres (a + b)
- Curator's comments
- Register 1979:
Gourd container, orangey brown with vegetable fibre stopper decorated with plaited geometric design in yellow and black; pig's tusk handle.
Ethnographical collection from Papua New Guinea. All pieces collected by the vendor in the field within the last thirty years.
See Eth.Doc.1179.
"Collected Woodlark Island 1976." For lime.
WOODLARK Island, MILNE BAY Province.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Acquisition notes
- Register information about the collection: 'All pieces collected by the vendor in the field within the last thirty years'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1979,07.69.a
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 77 (Collectors number)