Spoon
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
230 mm (Length)48 mm (W)
Place of origin
Somalia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303940
Summary
One of two carved wooden Somali spoons for eating rice with. Part of a larger set of spoons TAT/TH/F3/16/1. a - the handle carved with five vertical bands, b- carved with three vertical bands. Ovoid bowls. Collected 1939. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Somalia 1939.