Ancient Spoons
Threshold | Vergel, Mexico 2019
Amira is wearing a crown made from the base of a Sotol / Dasylirion (aka: “Desert Spoon”).
The base of a cooked Sotol stem may be eaten rather like an artichoke leaf (by scraping across the front teeth). This remnant, called a "quid", resembles a spoon and can be used as one. Archaeological sites where Sotol was eaten in this way are full of discarded quids thousands of years old.
Model: Amira Castro Dadajonova