A collection of nine Melanesia lime containers

A collection of nine Melanesia lime containers

Papua New Guinea

coconut shell, gourds and bamboo, including Sepik River with applied shells and a bone spatula, Massim with a stopper with a tusk like finial, Abelam with a plug stopper, Lake Sentani, one with an associated woven fibre and tusk stopper,

the longest 40cm. (13)

Provenance

Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.

Collected in the mid 1970s.