Lime gourd
- Museum number:
- 11-37534
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110037534
- Accession number:
- Acc.1915
- Description:
- lime bottle, carved gourd; slender neck; incised designs with excised areas blackened with soot; contains lime, used as stimulant
- Donor:
- Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux
- Collection place:
- Upper Sepik River, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
- Culture or time period:
- New Guinea, Papua Island
- Collector:
- Bruce D. Lawes
- Taxon:
- Cucurbitaceae
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Lime containers
- Function:
- 5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
- Accession date:
- 1964
- Department:
- Oceania
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