Récipient à chaux avec spatule en os ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Sepik supérieur · ID: 3051651

Description

pumpkin, with pokerwork, still filled with lime, slightl dam., crack

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”.