tea scoop (scoop (food processing & storage)); spoon (food processing & storage)

Tea scoop made from a long thin thin piece of bamboo or cane, with a ridge just below the centre and a curved end forming the bowl.

‘Wellcome’ catalogue card information found in archives of the Department of Africa, Oceania and The Americas at The British Museum on 5 October 2016 by Alison South. Scanned copy of card in ‘Wellcome’ section of the Horniman Historical files New No. 19397 Classification Group Section SPO Chin Initials in top right hand corner W (in a square box) Description of object 5 Chinese spoon shaped domestic implements and four cane ditto. 7� long. One black and gold lac ditto. 6� Bought of St 19/11/18. Lot 5 Value 7 /- At present Case No. 1056 To be placed

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
nn536
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 191 mm x 9 mm x 11 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
cane; bamboo
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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