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Object Number
14-27-10/85897.2
Display Title
Ceremonial spoon depicting Gunakadeit and a whale.
Descriptions
Object Description
Feast spoon, horn
Inventory Description
Horn spoon, pointed and carved handle with zoomorphic figures, nails
Classification
- Spoon
- Raw Material
Department
Ethnographic
Date
ca. 1840-1880
Culture
- Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
/
British Columbia
Additional Geographic Terms
Dixon's Entrance
Materials
Mountain goat horn Metal Copper
Dimensions
Overall: 23 x 5.7 x 6.3 cm (9 1/16 x 2 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
14-27-10/85897.2 (2); L52/2/94b
Provenance
Collector
Lt. George Thornton Emmons
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