Kena (Lime Spatula)
Trobriand Islands
Milne Bay Province
Massim area
Papua New Guinea
early 20th century
Ebony wood and lime
Overall: 13 3/8 × 1 9/16 in. (34 × 4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Harry A. Franklin Family Collection
990.54.27805
Geography
Place Made: Trobrian Islands, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Lime Container
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Exhibition History
Ancestors, Spirits, and Families: Expressing Relationships in Melanesian Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 47, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 11-June 30, 1996.
Changing Traditions in Pacific Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 38, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 7-November 10, 2002.
Provenance
Ethnological Museum of Stockholm, 1949; Denver Art Museum (OM169); Harry A. Franklin, Los Angeles, California 1950; Harry A. Franklin Family, Los Angeles, California, 1983; given to present collection, 1990.
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