Spoon

NA8533B

From: Canada | British Columbia | Skeena River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA8533B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tsimshian
Provenience Canada | British Columbia | Skeena River
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Mountain Goat Horn
Description

Carved spoon made from one piece of dark colored horn. The bowl is deeply concave and the handle tapers at the end. The handle is carved with shallow, formline designs of ovoids likely representing eyes and a mouth in higher relief below the ovoids.

Length 16 cm
Width 5.5 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918
Other Number SA 13 - Other Number

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