Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. This bone is the leg bone of a cassowary. It is finely carved to be a utensil, to take lime from a container to the mouth, when eating betel nut.
The top of the spatula is a bird beak, (probably a cockatoo), a clan motif. In ceremony they are decorated beautifully with tassles, shells and feathers. Size: 20.9 cm (length).