Lime Stick
29-50-563B
From: New Guinea | Timbunke
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-563B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Timbunke |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Bone | Shell |
| Description | Bone lime stick with a plaited-work ornament decorated with cowrie and nassa shells; from this depend a human-bird mask and 5 breast-bones of birds. |
| Length | 39 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 200 - Other Number |
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