Salad fork

Museum number:
5-5946
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
[TBD-MTB, 10/2/2009] (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2281
Description:
Carved wooden salad fork w/ anthropomorphic handle; soft metal wire handle decoration.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Kenya
Verbatim coll. place:
Kenya; Wakamba
Culture or time period:
Kamba
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Salad forks
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
August 28, 1967
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Comment:
Door book indicates that this accession has two objects in it [second would b e 5-5947], but there is no indication of more than one fork.
Loans:
S1975-1976 #9: Palo Alto Cultural Center (November 1974–unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Salad fork, accession number 5-5946, described as Carved wooden salad fork w/ anthropomorphic handle; soft metal wire handle decoration.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Salad fork, accession number 5-5946, described as Carved wooden salad fork w/ anthropomorphic handle; soft metal wire handle decoration.

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