Sam+O+HA

Our small object with the big story.

Our Nan, everybody calls her Little Nanna, used to own this wooden spoon. The main thing Nan used the spoon for was for making little Christmas puddings. Her children, and her children's children and then my older brother and sister remembers sitting around the kitchen table chopping fruit for her all day long. Nan was someone who was always prepared to cook up a feed for anybody at any time. She used to make the puddings for: fund raisers in schools, soldiers who have left for war, for the families of those who didn't return to support them, for anybody who was sick. She was the woman who would cook for anybody.

 || 1. Who originally owned this object? Great Grandmother 2. Has the object belonged to different people? Yes, it was passed on to dad when Nana died. 3. With which country is this object connected? Australia 5. Who has kept it? Great Grandmother and now dad. 6. Where has this object been kept? Apollo Bay and now my house. 7. How has this object been used? For making puddings and things. 8. Has it been used in different ways over time? In what ways? No, It hasn't. 9. Has this object meant different things to different people, over time? Explain. The object was just used to mix the puddings and things but it was used by many generations. 10. Has the object been looked after? If so, how? The spoon is not cracked or broken and it has been around for a long time. 11. Is the object very precious to anyone? Who? Why? To our whole family because it contains memories of Nana and is part of tradition in baking puddings and things. 12. How has the object changed over time? Old and stained with something dark. 13. What stories can be told about this object? Of how Nana used it to cook everything and how everybody helped cook and helped to cut the vegetables up for the puddings.