- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Coconut scraper with round, serrated blade of iron mounted upon a collapsible stool cut from a single block of wood, carved and decorated in black and white. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 6/4/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Dar es Salaam
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1933
- Date collected
- By 1933
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1933
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Material Pigment, Process Decorated, Process Carved, Process Notched, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 500 mm collapsed
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1933.22.1
Search terms: Tool, Food and Drink, Scraper, Food Accessory
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