Sago Scoop
83-37-5
From: New Guinea | Siasi
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 83-37-5 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Siasi |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | Long narrow piece of wood, hollowed out for 1/2 its length to make a scoop. Notched decoration at tip of handle, incised stirrup-shaped decoration at foot of handle, stylised face and repeat of stirrup-shaped motif in relief on back of scoop. Black, with (accidental?) splotches of white paint at top of handle. Small split at top edge of scoop. |
| Length | 56.9 cm |
| Width | 5.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Benjamin Bernstein in honor of Evelyn Glauser Bernstein, 1983 |
| Other Number | 1225 - Other Number |
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