Spoon

29-50-379

From: New Guinea | Timbunke

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 29-50-379
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Timbunke
Section Oceanian
Materials Coconut
Description

For form cf. 29-50-377. The "handle" is here partly separated from the bowl by two deep notches. Together with the back of the bowl it is carved (incised) to represent the head of a (?) fish with 3 spikes behind (cf. 29-50-345). The design is completed by an (? unfinished) human mask and two groups of concentric circles, etc.

Length 11 cm
Width 9.4 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924
Other Number 345 - Other Number

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