Lime Container

29-50-557A

From: New Guinea | Tambunum

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Object Number 29-50-557A
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Tambunum
Section Oceanian
Materials Bamboo | Wood | Peel | Pigment
Iconography Crocodile | Hornbill
Description

Lime container. Joint of bamboo, with septum pierced at one end to admit lime stick. Bottom plug, hornbill and crocodile (head only of latter). "Dance. Man's."

Length 77 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924
Other Number 404 - Other Number

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