Spoon made from platypus bill

Made:: 1900-1925

Spoon made from platypus bill, Australian, 1900-1925

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A26494

Materials:: bill, platypus

type:: spoons

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Spoon made from platypus bill

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