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These are three older lime spatulas from the Massim culture of southeast New Guinea. The left spatula comes from the Fortess Collection in Hawaii. It has a Christies Auction house tag with "sale 7829, 17 Jan. 1996, lot 777" written on it with the handwritten remarks by Fortess "Lowe Art Museum, 83. 0140" also on the tag. This one is a small "clapper" type spatula with excellent remains of white lime on the blade. All three spatulas are nice older, classic examples, they range in size from 11 ¼" to 13" in height. sold