Ivory Spoon And Holder
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1886
label: Collection Date
content: 1885
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. U S N Emory H. Taunt
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. U S N Emory H. Taunt
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A: spoon 19.3 cm L.; deep bowl, loop-shaped handle w. notched edge. B: loop-work cord container with elephant tail hair decoration, total L about 40 cm. Identified as "Kassai" in Leiden Museum "Album of the Ethnography of the Congo Basin," pl. 10, figs. 1,2,3 but attributed to the Sango-Nkakara area by L. Siroto. Cleaned, see Restoration Record 10-17-64 (A) 3-3-65 (B)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Boyoma Falls (Stanley Falls), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 017986
label: USNM Number
content: E127189-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon / Spoon Case
physicalDescription: label: Total Length - Object
content: 40 cm
label: Length - Spoon
content: 19.3 cm