Context (Other owners)
(Bio): Miss Joyce Baker is the daughter of Reverend H.J. Baker who was a Methodist missionary to the Mashona tribe, in the early twentieth century, (1904-1919), in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Event Date 16/10/2008
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Cooking spoon. Round cooking spoon with engraved motifs at the back of the spoon and its handle.
Event Date 16/10/2008
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
The 'Methodist Who's Who' (n.d. ?1912/1913) notes Rev. H. J. Baker as Herbert John Baker, a pioneer missionary in Rhodesia, who worked at the Matabeleland Gold Mines, as Master of the Public School, Selukwe and then in Mashonaland.
The material was all identified as Mashona on entry to the Museum but may also have been been acquired in Matabeleland or Selukwe, now known as Shurugwi.


Event Date 15/4/2019
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Wooden cooking spoon with a circular bowl, wide bowl rim, carved triangular neck section, and a long handle which is broadly hemispherical in cross-section with a triangular end-terminal. Upon the bowl reverse and neck are incised lines, triangles, squares and a zig-zag border. There are incisions upon the internal bowl surface.
Event Date 6/2/2023
Author: Jane Pettitt