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Wooden flour scoop, probably turned and the center gouged; in the shape of a shell.
scoops (serving utensils)
cookware
turning (shaping process)
wood (plant material)
incising
maple (wood)
carving (processes)
Turned
Carved
Incised
Shell
Wood
Scoop
Incised into notch at center top of shell: EF [with partially encircling line]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2 1/2 x 3 1/2 (HxD), 8 1/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.659
Image: "In the center of the lower shelf appears a wooden scoop fashioned in the exact form of a large surf-shell clam."
Title Fork Accession Number 1991.620
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