Bowl
Curio
52-42-48
From: New Guinea | Trobriand Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 52-42-48 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Trobriand Islands |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | Made for export. Light wood. Shallow, egg-shaped bowl with flat rim and with wide flat projection around wide end just below rim; rim at narrow end extended into small flat painted projection. From the under side of each projection, a loop "foot" which widens into an offset base. Carved curvilinear decoration on rim and projections, filled in with white paint. |
| Credit Line | New Guinea Ethnological Reconnaissance; Ward Goodenough, 1952 |
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