Spoon Item Number: K2.310 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A metal spoon that has a round bowl with a handle that is covered with ovals, dots, and lines in a symmetrical relief design. The wide handle has a main design that consists of five pairs of side-by-side, horizontal ovals in decreasing size from top to bottom. Each pair of ovals is connected by an upraised horizontal line across them. At each corner and in between each pair of ovals, there is a dot, creating six dots around each pair to total thirty dots. Another upraised horizontal line across separates each pair of ovals, all of which are bordered by an upaised vertical rectangle with perpendicularly incised lines across its flat edges. The base of the handle next to the bowl of the spoon has a diamond shape with a rounded circle at the centre surrounded by tiny dots and bordered by an outward pointing upraised line at either side with horizontal incised lines across its flat edges. Antique.
History Of Use
Spoon for measuring powdered gold onto scales.
Item History
- Made in Ghana
- Collected by Deborah Taylor between 1971 and 1972
- Owned by Peter Osei
- Owned by Deborah Taylor before 1972
- Received from Leon & Thea Koerner Foundation (Funding source) and Deborah Taylor (Seller) during 1972
What
- Name
- Spoon
- Identification Number
- K2.310
- Type of Item
- spoon
- Material
- brass metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- hammered
- Overall
- height 10.8 cm, width 3.9 cm, depth 1.7 cm
Who
- Culture
- Akan
- Field Collector
- Deborah Taylor
- Previous Owner
- Peter Osei and Deborah Taylor
- Received from
- Leon & Thea Koerner Foundation (Funding source) and Deborah Taylor (Seller)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Ghana
When
- Collection Date
- between 1971 and 1972
- Ownership Date
- before 1972
- Acquisition Date
- during 1972
Other
- Item Classes
- metalwork
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 0200/0018