Carved wooden lime spatula with crescentic handle decorated with shell rings

Made:
1881-1920
Carved wooden lime spatula with crescentic handle decorated

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Carved wooden lime spatula with crescentic handle decorated
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Carved wooden lime spatula with crescentic handle decorated with shell rings, from Louisiade Archipelago, New Guinea, 1881-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A655862
Materials:
wood, shell and fibre
type:
lime spatulas
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)