Spoon

Museum number:
1-11727
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.286
Description:
Handcarved of elk antler. Oval bowl, broken and indigenously repaired with twine. Stub handle, broken, with serrated edges.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Waasoi, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Waasoi
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
May 1907
Taxon:
Cervus canadensis
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 6.1 centimeters and length 13.9 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-11727, described as Handcarved of elk antler. Oval bowl, broken and indigenously repaired with twine. Stub handle, broken, with serrated edges.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-11727, described as Handcarved of elk antler. Oval bowl, broken and indigenously repaired with twine. Stub handle, broken, with serrated edges.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-11727, described as Handcarved of elk antler. Oval bowl, broken and indigenously repaired with twine. Stub handle, broken, with serrated edges.

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