1884.5.59

Collection type

Object

Description

Wooden spoon with long oval bowl and openwork handle, partly with burnt decoration. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/3/2006]

Geographical reference

Gabon

Africa > Central Africa > Gabon

Nyanga

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Date made: Possibly before 1875

Date collected

By 1875 Oct 14

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Burnt

Dimensions

Length: max 177 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.5.59 Other numbers: 35

Research and responses

Page 121 of Accession Book IV suggests that objects dated 14.12.75 are part of the RBN Walker collection ['Additional Accession Book IV entry - Those objects dated 14.12.75 = RBN Walker coll - v seq Magic No 3327 and others Africa and top page 147'. The date and location of the provenance of this object does seem to confirm that this might be a RBN Walker object. 1884.87.5 says 'See Journal Anth Soc in Anthr Review vol v 1867 for list coll. by RBN Walker and later sold to PR by Anthr Soc of London. Note that this object does not appear to have been listed in the list of RBN Walker objects presented to the Anthropological Society of London in 1867' [JAS, 1867: cl et seq]. The Anthropological Society of London joined with the Ethnological Society in 1871 to form the Anthropological Institute (latterly known as the Royal Anthropological Institute). Pitt Rivers was a member of both the Ethnological Society and the Anthropological Society, and later of the Anthropological Institute, of which he was President in 1881-2. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Search terms: Food and Drink, Spoon, Food Accessory