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Bamboo lime container with carved wooden stopper
Bamboo lime container with carved wooden stopper
Object Number 2004.24.23864
Display Title Bamboo lime container with carved wooden stopper
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Household
  • Studio
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • bamboo
  • Bird
  • Container
  • Lime
  • Wood
Department Photographic
Date 1965
Artist Arsen E. Charles
Culture
  • Melanesia
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / <State> / <County> / <City> / Nyourangai
Additional Geographic Terms Sepik River
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 11.43 x 8.89 cm (4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)

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