Lambert's assistant, Ahuia, with gourd and stick for lime--a chemical made from ashes, often of burned shells, and used in chewing betelnet

He is holding a lime gourd and spatula.

• between 1920 and 1921

• Lambert, Sylvester Maxwell, 1882-1947

This digital image is a surrogate of an item in the Sylvester Lambert Papers (MSS 682) - Box 11, Folder 5.

• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Papua New Guinea

• Betel nut
• Medical assistants
• Men
• Papua New Guineans

• image

Online finding aid

• Sylvester M. Lambert Papers

• Sara Davis

[Title, Date]. Sylvester M. Lambert Papers. MSS 682. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

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2021-11-17