spoon (food processing & storage)

Spoon with a clam shell bowl, with a narrow length of bamboo forming the handle, which has a small hole pierced near the tip. The bamboo has been split at the base, and the clam shell has been inserted into it and bound with vegetable fibre.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1887a
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 219 mm x 63 mm x 15 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
bamboo; clam shell; plant fibre
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
World Gallery > Perspectives > Museums perspective - back wall
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