Spoon

NA7636C

From: Alaska

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA7636C
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Alaska
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Mountain Goat Horn | Sheep Horn | Copper
Description

Carved spoon made from two pieces of horn. The sheep horn bowl is deeply concave and light in color. The darker colored handle is riveted to the bowl using two copper rivets. Two figures are carved into the handle and have residue in their eyes where abalone shell was likely once inlaid. The lower figure has large eyes, a closed mouth with thick lips, and a thin, pointed nose that curves down into the mouth. A smaller head is carved above this and likely represents a whale.

Length 26 cm
Width 8 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917

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