Ladles; gourd; hole pierced in neck. a) piece of vegetal fiber cordage attached; length: 16.8 centimeters. b) length: 15.2 centimeters.
Donor:
David H. Eichorn
Collection place:
Boca Mavaca (Yababuji), Amazonas, Venezuela
Culture or time period:
Yanomamö
Collector:
David H. Eichorn
Collection date:
November 1965
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ladles
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1967
Context of use:
For eating banana soup, cooking bananas (platanas); collector ate this soup at funeral with scoops like these; ground up bones of dead women were in soup; collector did not remember tribe but Guaika do have these.
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Loans:
S1969-1970 #121: Berkeley High School (May 14, 1970–June 23, 1970), S1970-1971 #23: Berkeley High School (October 1, 1970–November 25, 1970), S1971-1972 #22: Berkeley High School/David H. Eichorn (September 29, 1971–November 10, 1971), and S1973-1974 #14: Berkeley High School/David H. Eichorn (September 12, 1973–October 12, 1973)