Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 11226: 'Lime box made of a gourd - plain. The handle of the spatula consists of a time figure of a man carved in wood. The man is leaning forward and resting his hands on a canoe prow-like object.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
An old display label found in the archives (OA2/1/13) reads: ‘LIME GOURDS / D. A. VON HUGEL / Z 11227 / Z 11226'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Labels & Markings)
'Z 11226' inscribed in black ink on the object. 'O.VI.31.3.H' ['3' in superscript].
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
This object was probably collected by von Hügel from the crew of the Daphne, a labour vessel back from the Solomon Islands and anchored at Levuka on the Island of Ovalau, Fiji. Maudslay and von Hügel visit the vessel for the first time on 3 September 1876 (Roth & Hooper 1990: 424) and visited again on 22 September: 'After lunch go with Maudslay and look at a collection of Solomon islands' native manufactures which were brought back in the Daphne labour vessel. A good lot of things but the owner has the cheek to ask £80 for them. We, therefore, pick and spend together some £22 - after having got all the best things' (Roth & Hooper 1990: 428).
Event Date 09/1876
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Long and thin undecorated gourd used as a lime container. The lime stick is decorated with an anthropomorphic figure holding on a canoe prow. The stick cannot be removed from the container. A crack along the upper part of the gourd.
Event Date 14/10/2015
Author: maa

Context (References)
Illustrated in Lucie Carreau. 2016. Collections from the Solomon Islands. Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.13275, p.9.
Event Date 2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
This lime spatula is depicted in a drawing by Constance Gordon Cumming in MAA's collection (D.98929.GCUM).
Event Date 18/3/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau