Spoon
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: 1872
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. William B. Hazen
label: Collector
content: William Courtenay
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Mildred M. Hazen
notes: label: Notes
content: Culture identification changed from Sioux to Hidatsa, Arikara, or Mandan by Candace Greene May 2017 based on a full review of the collecting history and consideration of general stylistic traits.
label: Notes
content: From card: "153944 Illus.: Ewers, John C. Plains Indian Sculpture; Fig. 170, pg. 175. Identified there as buffalo-horn spoon with an effigy handle in the form of a caricature of the head of a white man; 8" long."
label: Notes
content: From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Pair of spoons. - Larger spoon [E153944-0] made of cow horn; handle curved and wrapped with brass wire. Smaller spoon [E153944-1] made of black word "goat" crossed off and replaced with buffalo] buffalo horn; man's head carved on the end of the handle. The two spoons are attached together by a band of beadwork [now missing]. Length of larger spoon, 12 inches; length of smaller spoon, 8 inches."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Buford, Williams County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hidatsa (?)
label: Culture
content: Arikara (Sahnish) (?)
label: Culture
content: Mandan (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025748
label: USNM Number
content: E153944-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon