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Small spoon with carved serpent and crab
Object Number 83-14-50/30210
Display Title Small spoon with carved serpent and crab
Descriptions
Object Description Carved spoon with serpent handle and linked crab bangle.
Inventory Description Carved wooden spoon, anthopomorphic design, looped handle, incised.
Classification
  • Spoon
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Vili
  • Yombe
  • Kongo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Congo
Africa / Angola
Additional Geographic Terms Loango region, Loanda, Southwest Coast
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 17.5 x 5 x 1.9 cm (6 7/8 x 1 15/16 x 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 83-14-50/30210
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. John D. Sparhawk, 1883
Provenance
Collector Mr. John B. Sparhawk (1857)
Donor Mrs. John B. Sparhawk (June 1883)

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