TIDBITS

                    THREE SPOON BOWLS

Hungry? Starving? Can’t get enough food? Try the old world triple spoon pin, artist unknown. Today’s image is in two parts. The first part is about a spoon pin with one whole main spoon with a large bowl and two small side spoon bowls, one on each side. It was made in Peru and is considered part of Latin American art. After contact with the Europeans, many of these pins, called Tipu and Ttipqui pins, were made of silver, as shown in the design you are all soon to see. These pins were designed to be inserted diagonally to fasten mantles or capes at the neck. While their style of wear has changed, they now wear blouses instead of capes and shawls, they still use garment pins to keep what they’re wearing closed. What is the matter with them? Haven’t they ever heard of buttons?