Spoon

Museum number:
1-1303
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3547 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Spoon made of elk antler. Hand-carved. Oval bowl (cracked). Hole in bottom of bowl indigenously repaired with fiber. Handle at acute angle to bowl.
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
Taxon:
Cervus canadensis
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 6.6 centimeters and length 15.3 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-4846" Published: "AAE XXIV, 7, pl 106a
Loans:
S1974-1975 #81: Mt. Diablo Unified School District (April 15, 1975–June 11, 1976)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-1303, described as Spoon made of elk antler. Hand-carved. Oval bowl (cracked). Hole in bottom of bowl indigenously repaired with fiber. Handle at acute angle to bowl.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-1303, described as Spoon made of elk antler. Hand-carved. Oval bowl (cracked). Hole in bottom of bowl indigenously repaired with fiber. Handle at acute angle to bowl.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spoon, accession number 1-1303, described as Spoon made of elk antler. Hand-carved. Oval bowl (cracked). Hole in bottom of bowl indigenously repaired with fiber. Handle at acute angle to bowl.

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