Wooden Spoon
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 May 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Benjamin S. Lyman
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "APPARENTLY PURCHASED IN YOKOHAMA, JAPAN."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 42.20 p. 299 of Fitzhugh, William W., and Chisato O. Dubreuil. 1999. Ainu: spirit of a northern people. [Washington, D.C.]: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with University of Washington Press. Identified there as eating utensil: "Small flat wooden spatulas were used as eating utensils by children or older people; adults also used them when they ate porridge made of lily roots. Most early pieces, like this one ... had intricate carved designs."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given / Yokohama (purchased here), Hokkaido (Yezo) / Honshu, Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005204
label: USNM Number
content: E22269-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.6 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 1.2 cm