Spoon

Museum number:
1-9429
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010009429
Accession number:
Acc.215
Description:
Handcarved of elk antler. Plain handle with open hole at end and 16 at base. Handle broken near base and indigenously repaired with deerskin lashing.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Hupa, Karuk, Klamath River Tribes, and Yurok
Collector:
Alexander Brizard and Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 6 centimeters and length 16.2 centimeters
Comment:
Published: AAE XXIV, 7, pl. 105 b.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-9429, described as Handcarved of elk antler. Plain handle with open hole at end and 16 at base. Handle broken near base and indigenously repaired with deerskin lashing.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-9429, described as Handcarved of elk antler. Plain handle with open hole at end and 16 at base. Handle broken near base and indigenously repaired with deerskin lashing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-9429, described as Handcarved of elk antler. Plain handle with open hole at end and 16 at base. Handle broken near base and indigenously repaired with deerskin lashing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-9429, described as Handcarved of elk antler. Plain handle with open hole at end and 16 at base. Handle broken near base and indigenously repaired with deerskin lashing.

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