- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Large wooden spoon with openwork handle, with incised designs. Top of the handle and the rim of the bowl blackened (burnt). [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/3/2006]
- Geographical reference
- Zanzibar
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1905
- Date collected
- 1905
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1905
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Burnt
- Dimensions
- Length: max 355 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1905.22.6
Search terms: Food and Drink, Spoon, Food Accessory
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