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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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