Wooden bowl

Museum number:
11-40985
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2519
Description:
Bowl, wood; egg shaped, tapering at each and where short handles protrude from upper body of bowl; linear indentations on handles and around lip of bowl; used for a variety of purposes, i.e., preparation, storage or serving of food; 67 cm x 22 cm.
Donor:
Daniel L. Adler
Collection place:
New Guinea, Melanesia
Culture or time period:
Papuan
Collector:
Daniel L. Adler
Collection date:
before 1969
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1969
Department:
Oceania
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Wooden bowl, accession number 11-40985, described as Bowl, wood; egg shaped, tapering at each and where short handles protrude from upper body of bowl; linear indentations on handles and around lip of bowl; used for a variety of purposes, i.e., preparation, storage or serving of food; 67 cm x 22 cm.

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