- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Long spoon with ovate triangular shallow scoop and flat triangular handle. Rim of scoop burnt brown for decoration. Front side of stem burnt in linear and triangular pattern. Sides of handle burnt brown.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Evelyn Mary Foxley
- Field collector Dorothy Mary Meadows
- Field collector Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- PRM source Evelyn Mary Foxley
- PRM source Dorothy Mary Meadows
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1952
- Date collected
- Foxley 1933-38 Meadows 1944-52
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 09/1995
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Burnt, Process Pyroengraved Pokerwork
- Dimensions
- Width: max 65 mm, Length: max 525 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1995.21.39
Search terms: Food and Drink, Spoon, Food Accessory
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