Ladle, late 19th/early 20th century ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Archipel Bismarck - Îles de l´Amirauté · ID: 3039735

Description

hollowed coconut shell, wood, red, black and white pigment, pierced handle in the shape of a fish, the handle was inserted through a hole in the ground of the shell and fixed by plant fibre and parinarium nut paste, slightly dam., base

Littérature comparée

Ohnemus, Sylvia, Zur Kultur der Admiralitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel 1996, p. 244 f.