spoon
- Museum number
- Am1962,01.185
- Description
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Spoon; carved of wood; flat-bladed spoon with curved notches along each side of handle, "20" and "30" and "Otillio" written in blue ink on spoon.
- Production date
- 1962 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 64 centimetres
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Width: 7.50 centimetres
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Depth: 1.10 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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This geometrically carved wooden spoon, or ‘mecedó,' is featured in ‘Otilio,’ a short story by Afro-Colombian writer Velia Vidal (b. 1982) which imagines the life behind the name 'Otilio' inscribed on the object and addresses relations between Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Chocó. Vidal's fictional story forms part of ‘Untold Microcosms: Latin American Writers in the British Museum’ (2022), a book project between the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research (SDCELAR) at the British Museum and Hay Festival, in English and Spanish. For more information, visit: https://www.sdcelarbritishmuseum.org/collections/untold-microcosms-latin-american-writers-in-the-british-museum/
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Register 1962:
N79; NOANAMA.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1962
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1962,01.185
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: N.79 (Noanama group no. (field no. ?); marked on)
