Coin display spatula

Whale bone
Dimensions: Length: 36.5cm
Presumed period: 19th century
Iwa Island. Marshall Bennett Islands
Two labels bear the inscriptions: “lime spatula / from Iwa Isl(and) / Trobriands / 1925”
and “P340“. Provenance:
– Collected by Charles Drage on Iwa Island in 1925
– Christie’s South Kensington February 10, 1987 lot n°20
– Julian & Barbara Harding “P340”
– Marcia and John Friede.

The Jolika Collection. Rye, New York

Literature :

H. Beran & F. Marcelin.2015, Art Massim, illustrated p.162