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1884.5.61

Wooden ladle with an ovate bowl & a flat expanded carving at the end of the handle. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/3/2006]

1884.5.61

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Collection type
Object
Description
Wooden ladle with an ovate bowl & a flat expanded carving at the end of the handle. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/3/2006]
Geographical reference
Gabon
Africa > Central Africa > Gabon
Nyanga
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
Dimensions
Length: max 233 mm, Width: max 90 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.5.61 Other numbers: 30
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. However it 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] unless it is object 30 Two Ndenge made by Isyâgâ obtained at the Iveia town of Buali Oremba Ngunye a few miles above the Falls of Samba. It could also be one of the African spoons mentioned on Black book page 77a [Ag 14.12.75] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Search terms: Food and Drink, Spoon, Food Accessory