Lime spoons

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Object Number 14-29-70/85741

Display Title Lime spoons

Descriptions

Inventory Description Spoons, carved wood, spatulate, curvilinear incised handles, 1 elongated

Classification

Spoon

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / Papua New Guinea

Additional Geographic Terms Trobriand Islands

Materials Wood

Dimensions Overall: 38.1 x 2.6 x 1.3 cm (15 x 1 x 1/2 in.)

Quantity 2

Label on object 85741

Provenance

Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth

Donor Museum of Comparative Zoology (1914)

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