A spoon with a bent handle
The bend is not damage — the handle was shaped on purpose, and the museum explains why.
The wooden spoon has a handle bent in the plane perpendicular to the bowl. At first it was taken for warping from damp.
But there are no cracks along the handle, which drying distortion would inevitably leave, and the curve is even. It is a shape made at manufacture: such a spoon rests on the rim of a makitra and does not slide in.
