Wooden Spoon, Large
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1884
label: Collection Date
content: Jul 1881
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LARGE SPOON, MADE OF LAUREL OR CUCUMBER WOOD. USED BY THE CHEROKEES TO STIR AND HANDLE THE CONNAWHANA OR FERMENTED MEAL. THE CARVING IS NEATLY DONE. THE BOWL IS HEART SHAPED. THE LENGTH SIX INCHES THE WIDTH FOUR AND THE DEPTH ABOUT TWO INCHES. THE HANDLE IS 12 IN. LONG AND IS EMBELLISHED AT THE END BY A CURVE OR BEND BENEATH WHICH IS A KNOB-LIKE PROJECTION. A RING IS CUT NEAR THE END SO THAT A STRING CAN BE ATTACHED. THE KROB AT THE END IS CARVED SO AS TO REPRESENT A TURTLE OR SNAKE HEAD."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yellow Hill Council House, Jackson County, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 014255
label: USNM Number
content: E63064-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 15 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 10 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: ca 5 cm
label: Length - Handle
content: ca. 30 cm