Dish

Description

Dish of blackened palmwood carved to represent a shark, the lines picked out with lime: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Huon Gulf, Tami Islands, late 19th to early 20th century

Museum reference

A.1949.174

Collection

Oceania

Object name

Dish

Production information

Tami Islands, Huon Gulf, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia

Date

Late 19th - early 20th century

Materials

Palmwood, Pigment

Physical description

Blackened palmwood; lines picked out with lime, paint (red, traces of)

Exhibitions

• Facing the Sea (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

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