Carved wooden implement

Carved wooden implement

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Carved wooden implement
Science Museum Group
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Carved wooden implement, boat shaped with pipe-like bowl in centre, decorated with incised curvilinear design inlaid with lime (?), provenance uncertain, possibly New Guinea or Peru, 1871-1920

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A85434
Materials:
wood
type:
mortars