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Lime container, 19th–early 20th century
Coconut shell, lime
15.2 x 12.7 cm (6 x 5 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.345

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Pierre Langlois Collection, Paris." (Catalog #568, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 185.) PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "The coconut is decorated with varan lizard images (cf. Hoogerbrugge, 1967: 67, drawing F). Almost every man and woman used a lime container made of gourd (those for men were cucumber-shaped, those for women pear-shaped). Lime containers made of decorated coconut shell, however, were only owned by wives of chiefs (Kooijman and Hoogerbrugge in Greub, 1992: 118, 120, pl. 92)." (Catalog #568, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 185.)

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