A Masssim dish

A Masssim dish

Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea

oblong with carved scroll decoration and with a seated figure at one end,

16cm high,

three Massim betel nut mortars, two pestles, a spatula, a club handle, an oblong bowl, a model stool with a marsupial support, and a coconut shell spinning top. (12)

Provenance

Harry Beran, Cambridge (1935 - 2021)