- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Plain white cyrena shell, used as a spoon. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 24/3/2006]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Edward Horace Man
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1884
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell
- Dimensions
- Width: max 52 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.102
Search terms: Specimen, Tool, Food and Drink, Animalia, Shell, Spoon, Food Accessory
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