- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Carved spatulate spoon used in mixing magic ingredients, poisons etc,
- Geographical reference
- Usambara
- Person
- Field collector A.D. Woodward
- Field collector Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- PRM source Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1920
- Date collected
- By 1920
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1920
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 430 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1920.91.6
- Research and responses
Note that Herbert Willoughby Woodward [qv] was based at Magila, Zanzibar for UMCA from circa 1878 - 1921, it seems unlikely, but not impossible that there should have been another Woodward, with different initials [ie A.D. Woodward] based in the same place at about the same time [AP 17/08/2004]
Search terms: Tool, Status, Religion, Ritual and Ceremonial, Spoon
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