Spoon

Museum number:
2-5234
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
43 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.131 and Acc.52
Description:
Cow horn spoon; top of handle wrapped with quilled strips; 2 pendants of carved hoof.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Teton Dakota
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Context of use:
Also used by other Siouan tribes.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 44 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: "UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971". Also used by other Siouan tribes.
Loans:
S1979-1980 #32: Merritt College/Maurice Wolfe (January 14, 1980–May 6, 1980)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-5234, described as Cow horn spoon; top of handle wrapped with quilled strips; 2 pendants of carved hoof.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-5234, described as Cow horn spoon; top of handle wrapped with quilled strips; 2 pendants of carved hoof.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-5234, described as Cow horn spoon; top of handle wrapped with quilled strips; 2 pendants of carved hoof.

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