Two Massim lime gourds Trobriand Islands

Two Massim lime gourds

Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea

with fine grasswork decorated stoppers, the larger with a handwritten label Gourd for coral lime which they eat with betel nut,

24cm and 19cm high

and a spherical gourd with burnt decoration. (3)

Provenance

Collected by Charles W. Abel, (1890 - 1930) Kwato, Papua New Guinea.

London Missionary Society.