Spoon

Museum number:
2-19090
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
D.38-293 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.854
Description:
Horn spoon, totemic handle, repaired.
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Haida and Tlingit
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Accession date:
1945
Context of use:
Remarks by Charles Brown, 12 June 1964: Such a spoon can be used by anyone.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 29.5 centimeters
Comment:
Additional original number: 975. Cf. "People of the Potlatch", figs. 19, 20, Audrey Hawthorn, Vancouver Art Gallery and Univ. British Columbia, 1956. Tlingit name: "s^s" (spoon).
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Spoon, accession number 2-19090, described as Horn spoon, totemic handle, repaired.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Spoon, accession number 2-19090, described as Horn spoon, totemic handle, repaired.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-19090, described as Horn spoon, totemic handle, repaired.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-19090, described as Horn spoon, totemic handle, repaired.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-19090, described as Horn spoon, totemic handle, repaired.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-19090, described as Horn spoon, totemic handle, repaired.

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