Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Pottery Pan

Papua New Guinea

 

Collected by Ernest John Wauchope

Given to the Museum in 1938

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Pottery pan, Papua New Guinea

This flattish pottery pan from Papua New Guinea was designed for frying sago. Sago is a starchy food obtained from the trunks of particular palm trees. This pan was made some time before 1937.

View database record 1938.36.1350