Spoon
70-9-109
From: United States of America | North Carolina
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 70-9-109 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cherokee |
| Provenience | United States of America | North Carolina |
| Culture Area | Southeast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | made of Rhododendron wood-used for eating corn soup-something else is written on the card but is now washed away-the spoon has a long wide handle which tapers off almost to a point at the tip. the pointed at the tip. The handle, rather than being carved at the center of the circular spoon, is carved on the side so that the spoon seems to be very lopsided. |
| Height | 7 cm |
| Length | 24 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Samuel Pennypacker, 1970 |
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