Spoon
- Museum number:
- 1-2355
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010002355
- Alternate number:
- KM - 24 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.15 and Acc.86
- Description:
- spoon, elk horn, handcarved; oval bowl; pair of 7 notches in wide area at base of handle, depression at top; L 15.5 cm X W (bowl) 5.4 cm
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwestern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California, Klamath, Hupa
- Culture or time period:
- Hupa
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- 1901
- Materials:
- Antler (material)
- Taxon:
- Cervus canadensis
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Spoons
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1903 and September 1901
- Context of use:
- eating utensil
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- width 5.4 centimeters and length 15.5 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)
- Legacy documentation:
-