- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Coconut-shell spoon: rounded bowl, handle with incised design of stylised figure infilled with white pigment; suspension hole. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/3/2006]
- Geographical reference
- Gulf Province Kikori District Orokolo Bay
- Cultural groups
- Orokolo (Western Elema)
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1937
- Date collected
- By 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1938
- Materials and processes
- Material Coconut Husk Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 140 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.36.135 Other numbers: Blackwood ii 135
Search terms: Food and Drink, Figure, Spoon, Food Accessory
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