Three food stirrers and hairp pin
Suriname, Djuka
not available anymore
Provenance
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.
Size
L: 26 cm / 35,5 cm / 49 cm / 51 cm
L: 10.2 inch / 14.0 inch / 19.3 inch / 20.1 inch
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.