Napkin with the story of Abraham and Isaac

Cutlass-shaped club
Trobriand Islands, Massim, Papua New Guinea
Wood, white pigment (lime)
28⅜ × 3½ × 1 in. (72 × 9 × 2.5 cm)

Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 80.0/9903

From the exhibition:

Frontier Shores: Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture of Identity in Oceania

Napkin with the story of Abraham and Isaac (1663)
Possibly made in the Workshop of Quirijn Damast
Dutch, Haarlem
Linen
42 x 29 1/2 in. (106.7 x 74.9 cm)

Jug for Frederic Macdonald (1863)
Lead-glazed earthenware (pearlware), painted and gilded

John Lockwood Kipling. Jug for Frederic Macdonald, 1863. Lead-glazed earthenware (pearlware), painted and gilded. National Trust, Bateman’s, NT 760663. © National Trust Images / John Hammond.