spoon (food service)

Spoon (Bedamuni: kaafo manusè). A small piece of Coconut shell used as a spoon (kaafo manusè) to eat Pandanus porridge (kaafo).

It is forbidden to eat Pandanus with one's fingers. As the planting and eating of coconuts is also forbidden, spoons used for eating Pandanus are generally scarce and passed down from father to son.

This spoon was bought from Atèba who inherited the spoon from his father Tèirama.

It is forbidden to eat Pandanus with one's fingers. As the planting and eating of coconuts is also forbidden, spoons used for eating Pandanus are generally scarce and passed down from father to son.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1982.11
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 104 mm x 58 mm x 51 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
coconut; string
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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