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1902.88.357

Spoon carved from a coconut shell with an asymmetrical curvature (for the left hand?) [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/3/2006]

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1902.88.357

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Collection type
Object
Description
Spoon carved from a coconut shell with an asymmetrical curvature (for the left hand?) [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/3/2006]
Geographical reference
Thailand
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Thailand
Naung Chik Ban Sai Kau
Cultural groups
Malay
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1902
Date collected
1901 - 1902
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1902
Materials and processes
Material Coconut Husk Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Width: max 55 mm, Length: max 133 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1902.88.357
Research and responses

Thomas Nelson Annandale and Herbert Christopher Robinson undertook an expedition to Perak and the [then] Siamese Malay states in 1901-1902, under the auspices of the Universities of Edinburgh and Liverpool. The results of this expedition were published in Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an Expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States, 1901-1902, published in London by Longmans, Green in four parts between 1903 and 1907. [SHD 17/5/2001]

Search terms: Food and Drink, Tool, Spoon, Food Accessory

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