Bowl, round, carved wood; incised zig-zag band with traces of lime filler around lip; Diameter 34.7 cm.
Donor:
Bronislaw Malinowski and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Milne Bay Province, Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
Culture or time period:
New Guinea, Papua Island
Collector:
Bronislaw Malinowski and Bruce D. Lawes
Collection date:
1914-1920
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1985-1986 #47: Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale Univ.) (April 1, 1986–July 31, 1986), S1985-1986 #48: Jagiellonian University, Poland (October 1, 1986–March 31, 1987), S1985-1986 #49: Warsaw Museum of Asia and the Pacific (1987–1987), and S1985-1986 #9: Arizona State Museum (September 20, 1985–February 7, 1986)