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Lime gourd and spatula, 19th–early 20th century
Calabash, cassowary bone, shell, fiber loops, gum, trade glass ring
39.4 x 6.4 x 8.3 cm (15 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.267

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Serge Brignoni Collection, Bern, Switzerland." (Catalog #193, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 114.) EXHIBITIONS: 1991 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, "New Guinea Bone Carvings." PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "A complete gourd and spatula, with all decoration preserved, is very rare. According to Kocher Schmid in Greub, 1985: 185, text with no. 40, such shell-decorated ceremonial lime gourds were 'most probably used by shamans when going into a trance, or at divining rituals before head-hunting raids.' (See also Coiffier, 2001: 212, fig. 146.) " (Catalog #193, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 114.)

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