Container
- Museum number:
- 11-37797
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110037797
- Accession number:
- Acc.1915
- Description:
- lime container, bamboo; pyroengraved incised designs, with curvilinear patterns predominant; two horizontal design bands separated by an open area; general trend if designs within these bands is spiral; tube partially crushed
- Donor:
- Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux
- Collection place:
- Aibom village, Lake Chambri, Middle Sepik River area, Papua New Guinea
- Culture or time period:
- New Guinea, Papua Island
- Collector:
- Bruce D. Lawes
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Lime containers
- Function:
- 5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
- Accession date:
- 1964
- Department:
- Oceania