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Object Number
11-2-70/83879
Display Title
Lime spoon
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Carved wooden implement, flat, smooth and rounded handle, carved and incised curvilinear designs on blade, lime residue on blade
Classification
- Spoon
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Papua New Guinea
/
Massim
Materials
Wood , Lime
Dimensions
Overall: 28 × 6.5 × 1.3 cm (11 × 2 9/16 × 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
83879
Provenance
Donor
Donated by
Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
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