Figurative lime spatula "daga" ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Îles Trobriand, Massim · ID: 3033764

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.

Littérature comparée

Hamson, Michael, Art of the Massim & Collingwood Bay, Los Angeles 2009, ill. 48