Pudding Knife
2003-32-130
From: New Hebrides | Torres Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-130 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Hebrides | Torres Islands |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood |
| Technique | Carved |
| Description | Long, thin knife used for cutting, serving and eating yam pudding. Handle (18 cm.) has toothed edges. See Speiser, Ethnology of Vanuatu, pp. 128-129 and Pl. 23 Nos. 1-5. Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
| Length | 55.9 cm |
| Width | 2.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16611 - Other Number |
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