Rusted Iron Spoon
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: List in accession file identifies as "Iron spoon encrusted with rust + pebbles, found on the site of Vacouvers boat encampment at Port Townsend." Paper label in Swan's hand found was found stored with the spoon, and has been filed in Anthropology Collections Lab accession file: "Spoon found on site of [Captain George] Vancouvers boat encampment at Port Townsend bluff [Vancouver was there in 1792], as shown in engraving in his published work. Supposed to have been left and finally covered up + again exposed by action of waves in 1870. J. G Swan."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Modern
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004126
label: USNM Number
content: A18922-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon