Wooden Spoon

Unidentified Zulu maker

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collected before 1885

Wood

Overall: 1.72 ft. (52.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Reverend Josiah Tyler

13.25.845

Geography

Place Made: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa

Period

19th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Food Service

Research Area

Africa

On view

Label

This ceremonial sculpted spoon might have been used at special occasions to stir and serve food, likely a range of meat and grains, from a clay pot.

From the 2023 exhibition Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art, curated by Alexandra Thomas, Curatorial Research Associate

Course History

First Year Student Enrichment Program – Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Colleen Lannon, Summer 2023

First Year Student Enrichment Program - Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Mokhtar Bouba, Summer 2023

Philosophy 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, John Kulvicki, Summer 2023

Writing 2.05, Why Write, Anyway?, Erkki Mackey, Fall 2023

Writing 5.24, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Fall 2023

Writing 5.25, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Fall 2023

Exhibition History

Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, and Northeast Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 22, 2023–May 25, 2024.

Provenance

Collected by Reverend Josiah Tyler (1823-1895), D. D., Missionary to the American Board, Natal, South Africa; given to present collection, 1885.

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