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Lime spatula handle
Object Number 2004.24.18208
Display Title Lime spatula handle
Descriptions
Object Description Lime Spatula handle Trobriands Provinience. New Guinea. Trobriand. Provinience. Acc. No. 46-54. 3 x 4. cf Frith, Art and Life in New Guinea. page 62(Peabody Museum). Photograph F.B. Pleasants.
Keywords
  • Studio
  • Household
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Spatula
  • Lime
  • Handle
Department Photographic
Artist Frederick Rhodes Pleasants
Culture
  • Melanesia
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Trobriand Islands
Materials Negative, nitrate
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)

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