Elk horn; cut from single piece of elk antler; flaring bowl with upturned curved handle; handle has serrated decoration on 2 sections. Designs made by rubbing horn on sandstone.
Donor:
American Indian Film Project and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1960
Materials:
Antler (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Spoons
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1960
Context of use:
Used by men only to eat acorn mush.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 5.6 centimeters and length 16 centimeters
Loans:
S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)