Wooden Spoon
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. XXX-23; P. 78. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.46, P.47. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SPOON.---CARVED FROM A SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD; BOWL ALMOST CIRCULAR, WITH TWO ANIMAL FIGURES IN THE CENTER. A LONG SLIT IS CUT IN THE CENTER OF THE HANDLE WHICH IS PAINTED IN BANDS OF BLACK AND BROWN. LENGTH, 10 INCHES. ESKIMO OF ALASKA, 1879. 37,120. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON." Serving spoons E37120 and E38635 are illustrated together in the Crossroads of Continents catalogue. Caption there identifies them as: "Bering Sea Eskimo. ... This set [of spoons have painted decoration in the bowls which] illustrates the mythological transformation between wolf and killer whale."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 40 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Western Eskimo".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chalitmut, Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E37120-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 25 cm