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Object Number 06-5-10/66513
Display Title Spoons, from skull of deer
Descriptions
Object Description Spoons, from skull of deer. Used by Women.
Inventory Description Spoons, worked bone, skull fragment, faunal, small handle
Classification
  • Spoon
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Yurok?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California / Humboldt County / Weitchpec
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 11.6 x 6 x 0.5 cm (4 9/16 x 2 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 66513
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (1906 - 1906)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1906 - 1906)

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