Calabash spoon carved and decorated with ducks. geometric figure in center and band across outer edge of bowl. inside of bowl encircled by 7 concentric bands enclosing "X" of 5 and 6 lines respectively.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1965
Materials:
Calabash [remove]
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Context of use:
serving
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 4 centimeters, width 10.5 centimeters, and length 23.7 centimeters