snuff spoons

Three snuff spoons. One snuff spoon with double bowl in series with two diamond shapes behind the second, the shaft on the upper surface has incised decoration of circles with centre dots around the bowls and is inscribed 'Kaffir Snuff Spoon'. Undersurface of shaft decorated with incised with cross hatching. The second snuff spoon with a single bowl, decorated with faint geometric incisions on the underside of the stem near the bowl. The third snuff spoon, with an elongated bowl, and incised cross hatching decoration midway on the under surface. There is a smaller depression on the other end of the spoon.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1976.298
PLACE
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
bone
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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