Two spoons of this type are illustrated by E.C. Bunker et al., Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York, 1997, p. 13, where it is noted that they would have been "worn suspended from a belt by pastoral peoples." This is shown in a drawing of a tomb of a man excavated at Shangdongcun, Ji county, Shanxi, p. 23, fig. A3.