Spoon
NA8462
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA8462 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Sitka |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Mountain Goat Horn | Copper |
| Description | Spoon made from two sections of carved horn. The bowl is made from light colored horn carved slightly concave with a crack along one side. A handle is riveted to the bowl using five copper rivets. The handle is made from darker colored horn which is smoothed, rounded, and tapers toward the end where it has a steeply cut termination. The handle is also steeply cut where it is riveted to the bowl. |
| Length | 27 cm |
| Width | 6.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
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