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Carved Lime Spatula

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Item Details

Description

Lime Spatula, made of fine bone with carved crown at top, and decorated with fine red rattan weave, (trade) beads and plastic ring, shell, dogs tooth.

Please refer to the photographs in this collection, women wearing this behind her ear.

A similar item is held at the Ethnologisches Museum zu Berlin, Nr. VI53536, attributed to the 1912-1913 Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition to the Sepik region. It is labeled "Kalkspatel" (lime spatula).

Locale: Lower Sepik River
Country: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1936 or earlier
Material: Cassowary or bat bone, beads, plastic ring, shell, dog's tooth
Dimensions: L 13"
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection

Similar items:
Ethnologisches Museum zu Berlin, Nr. VI53536
http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=1717897&viewType=detailView

Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris 2002
https://www.artkhade.com/object/Os8PRfjy

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Carved Lime Spatula

Name: Carved Lime Spatula
SKU: 113479393
Price: 800 USD
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