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Whereever you look: Spoons

Haunuman
of Bali, Indonesia, King of the monkey of the Ramayana story.

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Persian spoon
Bachtiar style with primitive Greek inscription on tin "Ich bin Unschuldig" ("I am innocent").


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Apothecaries’ spoon
of the Middle Ages with saint figure.

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Cult spoon
wunkirle of West Africa.


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New Guinea / Massim
snake pictures stamped with shell limestone and coconut skin.

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Dagon ancestral spoon
Mali / West Africa.


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Drinking spoon of the Tuaregs

Somalia spoon
made of camel thorn wood with precise notch ornamentation

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Persian spoon
precise carving art, very rare, Bachtiar style, specialty: rider picture of Alexander the Great


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Spoon
with blessing hand and "Iron Cross", date inscription 1916


Family spoon
Chinese, family initials at the handle end
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Mummy spoonbeautiful handmade replica made of ebony

Ornamental spoon
of the Austrian monarchy around 1860

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Tablespoon
in daily use of ordinary countryfolk, country of origin probably Austria


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Spoon of Maconde style
Bamako / Mali, highly finished art work made of rosewood



Traditional spoon
crowing cock of Madura, Indonesia
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Family spoon
of West Africa


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Pygmy birth
Cameroon, made around 1800


Ancestral stature
squatting, country of origin Borneo
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