- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spoon with a shaped wooden handle and a bowl made of carved coconut shell. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/3/2006]
- Person
- Field collector John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear
- Field collector HMS Flying Fish
- PRM source Julia Maclear
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1885
- Date collected
- 1885
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1909
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Coconut Husk Plant, Material Iron Metal, Process Carved, Process Nailed, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Width: max 57 mm, Length: max 208 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1909.30.97
- Research and responses
3 spoons are entries [1909.30.95 - 97]. [CF 7/1/2000]
Maclear was serving on HMS Flying Fish between 1883 and 1887 [AP 2/2/2001]
Search terms: Food and Drink, Spoon, Food Accessory
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