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Lime Container

Object Number:96-2-20
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: New Guinea
Trobriand Islands
Date Made: 1970's
Early Date: 1971
Late Date: 1981
Section:Oceanian
Materials:Gourd
Plant Fiber
Boar Tusk
Height: 11 cm
Width: 7.5 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Dr. Frederica de Laguna, 1996
Other Number:20 - Other Number

Description

Gourd with broad band of painted scroll design. Stopper wrapped with light and dark brown peel in V pattern, plugged with tip of boar tusk. Compare 68-7-82 A-C.

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