Wooden spoon

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Object Number 87-10-50/40888

Display Title Wooden spoon

Descriptions

Inventory Description Spoon, carved and pigmented wood, long bowl, handle curved, chipped and abraded

Classification

Spoon

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Mozambique

Additional Geographic Terms East Africa, central: Mongue; Inhambane

Materials Wood, Pigment

Dimensions Overall: 43.7 x 4.5 x 2.1 cm (17 3/16 x 1 3/4 x 13/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 40888

Provenance

Collector E. H. Richards (1886)

Donor Donated by Prof. J. H. Thayer

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