The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lime Spatula

Date:: late 19th–early 20th century
Geography:: Papua New Guinea, Milne Bay Province, Domara, Cloudy Bay (?)
Culture:: Massim people
Medium:: Wood, traces of lime
Dimensions:: H. 5/8 x W. 15 in. (1.6 x 38.1 cm)
Classification:: Wood-Implements
Credit Line:: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979
Accession Number:: 1979.206.1544

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

William O. Oldman, London, until 1912; The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, 1912–1959; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1959, on permanent loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1959–1978
See also
What
Lime (152)

Spatulas (80)
Where
Oceania (1,401)

Papua New Guinea (861)

Milne Bay (15)
In the Museum
Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (11,467)
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Melanesia, 1900 A.D.–present

Melanesia, 1800–1900 A.D.