Gourd Spoon
name: label: Discipline
content: Anthropology
label: Region
content: African Region
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Notes
content: Large spoon carved from a gourd from Nigeria. The spoon is decorated with a snake motif. The snake has been incised into the exterior of the gourd and appears to be double headed with a regular triangular pattern covering its entire body. The field around the snake has been cut out, so that the snake appears in relief. Around the snake is a circular border of two lines of triangles. Two long parallel lines are carved into the neck of the gourd and an additional border line is carved around the entire lip of the spoon. The interior of the gourd is clean and light in color. In the bottom of the cup of the spoon there is another simple design of an "X" composed of two sets of parallel lines enclosed by a series of concentric circles.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Dec 2023
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: Central Nigeria, Africa, Nigeria
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO400527-DSP
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
physicalDescription: label: Material
content: Gourd