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
Loans:
S1967-1968 #31: University of California, Irvine (September 26, 1967–December 28, 1967) and S1967-1968 #76: University of California, Davis (1968–unknown)