Wooden spoon with pointed oval bowl. Tip of handle burnt and underside of bowl burnt and incised with circular, swirly and wavy patterns. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 30/3/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden spoon with pointed oval bowl. Tip of handle burnt and underside of bowl burnt and incised with circular, swirly and wavy patterns. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 30/3/2006]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa
Cultural groups: Tswana
Person: Field collector William John Burchell; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History; PRM source Department of Geology, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date
Date collected: ?1810 - 1815
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1897
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Burnt
Dimensions: Length: max 250 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1897.86.8
Research and responses: Other items collected by WJ Burchell were given to the Ashmolean Museum by Burchell's sister, Miss Burchell, 1865 and later transferred to the PRM in 1886. [AP 31/8/99]
Associated publications: This spoon is illustrated on page 595 and described on page 594 in 'Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa', by William John Burchell, 1824, Vol. II. [MJD 06/01/2014]