Gourd - Lime Container

Unknown people (Papua New Guinea)

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Gourd

Overall: 9 1/16 × 1 15/16 in. (23 × 5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

54.41.13166

Geography

Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Object Name

Personal Gear: Lime Container

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Milton Mead Babcock (1910-1997) [dealer], Milton, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 1954.

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