Description (Physical description)
Original accession notes: Lime box. "See 1935.17A. B represents a MWAI (cf.) and a bird (?eagle)."
Event Date 1930
Author: rachel hand

Context (Analysis)
Decorative motifs: Head (janus), MWAI: headtop (scalloped2); ears (arcs9); eyes (oval6+lidded); nose (club1); mouth (oval1); nose extension (to chin); chin extension (bird tip). Bird (eagle?): bird-headtop (capped2); bird-eyes (oval5); bird-ears (hooked-up2); bird-beak (curved3); bird-wings (spread10); bird-wing pattern (oval1+lugline1); bird-tail (angled1); bird-legs (bent+4 claws); bird-body (curves2+zigzags3).
(For further details on motifs see Lovelace " Bateson Project" , Vol. I).
Museum record photograph: F14,20, F14,21, F14,22, F14,23. Basel Museum fur Volkerkunde numerical code: 15.1.8.;

Event Date 1994
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Lime box. Bamboo tube with wooden ornament in shape of a janus-face at top of barred ovoid, with a bird on a ' nose' at the ovoid's tip. Decorated with blue. white and red paint and many tassels, The plaited cane join between carving and tube has a three-flanged cover. Tapering wooden stopper has a single band with raised dot design and one flange. Above stopper a plaited cane ring with a single cane coiled loop to one side. Good
Event Date 1994
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: On display in the Papua New Guinea Sepik Case (case 36), Maudslay Hall, from 1990- 29 November 2017.
Display label notes '16. Ceremonial Lime Box: With Mwai face and bird ornament, given to a novice at the end of initiation. Iatmul. Palimbai, Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Bateson Collection. 1935.17 b'
Event Date 29/11/2017
Author: Shuai Li

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2022.5338 | Remedial
Event Date 17/5/2022
Author: Hana Bristow

Context (Display)
On display in Case 19 (Reckitt's Blue) in Colour: Art, Science & Power, LKS Gallery, MAA 26 July 2022 - 23 April 2023.

The exhibition label noted 'Bamboo lime container. The elaborately carved finial has a two-faced figure with a bird motif at the bottom, highlighted with ultramarine and white lime. Given to a male novice at the end of initiation'
Event Date 26/7/2022
Author: rachel hand