Figurative lime spatula "daga" · Papua New Guinea - Trobriand Islands, Massim · ID: 3033764
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Provenance
Thomas Schulze, Berlin, GermanySize
L: 38 cm
L: 15.0 inch
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, crowned by a stylized pair of figures, the faces decorated with fine linear incisions, slightly dam., missing part, chip at the tip of the spatula;
used for shell lime, which absorbs the biting taste of the betel nut.
Comparing literature
Hamson, Michael, Art of the Massim & Collingwood Bay, Los Angeles 2009, ill. 48