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Description: | A ladle, carved in wood, North America.
Property of Royal Museum, Number 4577.
A dark brown, wooden ladle, with a wide and shallow bowl. The ladle is carved from one piece of wood and has a handle that comes off straight from the bowl that tapers towards the end. The end section of the handle is bent backwards and has a carved figure of a human on their hands and knees. Between the shins of the figure are two holes and a piece of string is tied to the section of handle the figure is bent over.
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 27.4.61/56
caption: Detail view of handle of Horniman Museum object no 27.4.61/56
caption: Rear view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 27.4.61/56 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | Iroquois wood ladles (food processing & storage) string Northeast Peoples Food and Feasting | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-66040 | Go to resource |
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