Récipient à chaux avec spatule
Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Sepik
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Provenance
Felix Speiser (1880-1949), Basel, SwitzerlandTémoin, Geneva, Switzerland
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria
Taille
H: 31 cm (calabash)
20,5 cm (spatula)
H: 12.2 inch (calabash)
8.1 inch (spatula)
Description
pumpkin, wood, red pigment, pokerwork
Such calabash containers were used for storing the daily used portion of lime. Lime, betel nut and the leaves of the betel-pepper-bush were mixed together, forming the so-called “betel-bit”.