Spoon; Leso la legong
Item
Title
Spoon; Leso la legong
Creator
Unrecorded
Description
Physical Description: Wooden spoon with very long handle, decorated with two large wooden spheres along the handle, bowl edges and back decorated with darker staining of the wood. 'J.C Penfold Esq' is written in pen on the back of the bowl and a sticker/label reads 'Af112'.
Publisher
Making African Connections
Type
PhysicalObject
Format
Whole: 870 mm x 60 mm
Wood
Identifier
AF112
Source
Acquired by the museum in 1881 from Samuel Joseph Woodham Smith, along with five other Southern African spoons which are labelled 'J C Penfold Esq'. John Croucher Penfold was a Brighton solicitor who died in 1880. The Ledger was written in 1890 and records objects given to the museum in previous years. This acquisition was recorded as being 'before 1890', then corrected to 1881.
John Croucher Penfold
Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
Pre 1881
Space/Place
Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
Cultural Group: Tswana
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International