Coconut-Shell Dipper
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Coconut-Shell Dipper

Mediumcoconut shell, ivory, wood
Dimensions4 1/8 × 4 × 16 1/4 in. (10.5 × 10.2 × 41.3 cm)
Object number1948.30.279
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionCoconut shell bowl; oval whale ivory mounting flange with octagonal foreshaft; curved wooden handle tapers from octagonal to cylindrical to octagonal; octagonal whale ivory pommel, pierced to accommodate a lanyard; five copper fastenings, of which two are through-drilled.
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