Mask - Burkina Faso

Bronze spoon pendant — Lobi — Burkina Faso
Traditional meals are eaten with the fingers; these spoons, often ornately decorated, have a purpose quite different from that of preparing the meal or eating it.
Ivory Coast spoons are the best known and most renowned, perhaps alongside Zulu spoons. But many other ethnic groups also carve them, always with the same notion of a ritual or cult object rather than a utilitarian one.