Spoon

Museum number:
1-1314
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3558 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Made of elk antler. Handcarved. Oval bowl. Triangular, dentate pattern handle with incisions.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
F. E. Gist and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 6.2 centimeters and length 16.3 centimeters
Loans:
S1954-1955 #5: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (June 29, 1955–July 6, 1955), S1968-1969 #30: Project EPOCH/David Wayne Peri (October 28, 1968–December 31, 1968), S1968-1969 #76: Project EPOCH/David Wayne Peri (February 14, 1969–May 23, 1969), S1978-1979 #25: Hoopa Tribal Museum (October 19, 1978–February 2, 1979), and S1979-1980 #9: DeAnza College (August 31, 1979–December 17, 1979)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-1314, described as Made of elk antler. Handcarved. Oval bowl. Triangular, dentate pattern handle with incisions.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-1314, described as Made of elk antler. Handcarved. Oval bowl. Triangular, dentate pattern handle with incisions.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-1314, described as Made of elk antler. Handcarved. Oval bowl. Triangular, dentate pattern handle with incisions.

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