Horn spoon

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Object Number 88-51-10/50467

Display Title Horn spoon

Descriptions

Inventory Description Spoon, carved horn, plain, ovoid bowl, tapered handle

Classification

Spoon

Department Ethnographic

Date 19th century

Culture

Tlingit

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / United States / Alaska / Sitka Borough / Sitka

Materials Horn

Dimensions Overall: 4 x 7.5 x 27.2 cm (1 9/16 x 2 15/16 x 10 11/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 88-51-10/50467; 74282 / Alaska / McLean

Provenance

Collector J. J. McLean (1884)

Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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