Three food stirrers and hairp pin · Suriname, Djuka · ID: 3048552
André J.F. Köbben (1925-2019), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (coll. in situ in 1961)
Köbben is considered the most important “ancestor” of Dutch anthropology. What was previously called “Volkenkunde”, practiced by astute “armchair” scholars, now became field-based ethnography and anthropology. Köbben himself has done fieldwork among coffee and cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast and later in Suriname among the Djuka Maroons.
Description
wood, each mounted on base
Very elaborately carved.
These spoons were used for food preparation, as well as for the preparation of certain dishes on ritual occasions.
The object Three food stirrers and hairp pin with the object ID 3048552 was last part of the auction 97th Auction at November 6, 2021 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 55.
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Comparing literature
Price, Sally & Richard, Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest, Los Angeles 1980, p. 149, ill. 209