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A Dan Feast Ladle Ex Levitt Collection, NY
A Dan Feast Ladle Ex Levitt Collection, NY
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A very finely carved wooden Spoon known as wunkirmian or wakemia (which translates as "spoon associated with feasts") are badges of prestige acknowledging an individual woman for her incomparable generosity. Dan peoples, Ivory Coast, West Africa. The spoon measures 18.25 x 4.5 inches. Provenance: Ex. Sol and Josephine Levitt, NY, Acquired in Amsterdam, C. 1985.
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