Spoon

Museum number:
2-48487
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
2-1573B (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
European-style. Incised and darkened umiak and kayaks on handle. Made of antler.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Northwest Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Taxon:
Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 13.2 centimeters
Comment:
Published: Ray, Eskimo Art (1977), fig. 133. "Ray: "...made of caribou antler in imitation of metal tableware, Saint Michael, 1890's...The white man's useful objects were often copied, on order, as souvenirs, sometimes as almost perfect replicas and sometimes as miniatures...."
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-48487, described as European-style. Incised and darkened umiak and kayaks on handle. Made of antler.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-48487, described as European-style. Incised and darkened umiak and kayaks on handle. Made of antler.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-48487, described as European-style. Incised and darkened umiak and kayaks on handle. Made of antler.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 2-48487, described as European-style. Incised and darkened umiak and kayaks on handle. Made of antler.

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