Spoon

Museum number:
2-61600
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3323
Description:
Made from bison (?) horn; handle wrapped with green and white porcupine quills; pendant from handle are buckskin thongs fully covered with bands of green and white-dyed porcupine quills.
Donor:
Virginia Vail
Collection place:
Wind River Reservation, Wind River, Wind River County
Verbatim coll. place:
Wyoming; Wind River Reservation
Culture or time period:
Eastern Shoshone
Collector:
James K. Moore Sr.
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Taxon:
Erethizon dorsatum
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Context of use:
Novelty.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 15.3 centimeters and width 3.7 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-61600, described as Made from bison (?) horn; handle wrapped with green and white porcupine quills; pendant from handle are buckskin thongs fully covered with bands of green and white-dyed porcupine quills.

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