Context (Display)
NB. Pencil note on catalogue card: "A now back from St Neots Museum". Note on back on catalogue card: "39.126 A Spoon. Not in Cat. originally (only B). See box 16.A.1 Size 1/2 1. Was on long term loan to St Neots Museum. TEH 27-1-97".
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1939.126 A-B: 'Two wooden spoons with elaborately carved handles.
A: Shallow, almost flat bowl, and solid handle.
B: Deep oval bowl, broad flat handle with openwork carving.
Both handles decorated with geometrical 'chip carving' patterns, with the 'relief' parts (and the borders of the bowls) blackened. Native name Mwiko. cf. Ingrams, Zanzibar, p.397.'
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Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Note found in box reads 'Removed for photography', signed [?] 'HLM' [spelling unclear].
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Author: Lily Stancliffe

Description (Physical description)
Wooden spoon with oval bowl and long, carved handle decorated with open arches and circles surrounded by chip-carved geometric ornament. The surface has been blackened.
Event Date 6/4/2022
Author: Lily Stancliffe