Horn Spoon
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Dec 1882
name: label: Collector
content: W.J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 33, p. 39 in Crowell, Aron, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar. 2001. Looking both ways: heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press. Identified there as a "mountain goat horn spoon, height 15 cm.. Alutiiq craftsmen made serving spoons from the horns of mountain goats. They softened the horns with steam, then bent and carved the bowls into shape. Figures on the handles are stylistically unique, but have similarities to Tlingit totemic designs (Holm 1988). [This spoon] probably reached Kodiak Island through trade with the Chugach region."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Island / Karluk River, Kodiak Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Koniag
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 012209
label: USNM Number
content: E72527-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 15 cm