Spoon; carved from single piece of pink-white wood; flat bottomed bowl with square rim with rounded corners; L 22.5 cm; bowl 6-7 cm sq. See field notes in acc. env.
Donor:
Susan Weikel Palmer and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Lacanjá, Chiapas, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; Chiapas; Lacanjá; Lacandon Indians
Culture or time period:
Lacandon
Collector:
Susan Weikel Palmer
Collection date:
October 11-12, 1966
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1967
Context of use:
Used by everyone for eating and stirring "pozole" - maize gruel