Kena (Lime Spatula)
Unidentified Massim area maker
Trobriand Islands
Papua New Guinea
1970s
Hardwood
Overall: 12 3/16 × 1 × 1/8 in. (31 × 2.5 × 0.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Cynthia and Douglas McCollum in memory of Audrey and Robert McCollum
2018.29.9
Geography
Place Made: Trobrian Islands, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Gear
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Audrey and Robert McCollum; to thier children, Cynthia and Douglas McCollum; given to present collection, 2018.
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