Tribal Art & Antiquities - 20th September 2017
Lot 594
Two Massim lime gourds Trobriand Islands
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000
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Description
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.