Spatula: Pudding Knife
Unknown people (Papua New Guinea)
collected 19th century
Wood with white pigment
Overall: 13 9/16 × 1 3/8 × 1 1/8 in. (34.5 × 3.5 × 2.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
13.2.652
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
Peoples of Oceania: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-30, 1995.
Provenance
Source unknown; donated to Dartmouth College, in the late 18th or 19th century; catalogued, 1913.
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