Horn Spoon, Black And Carved
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Feb 1884
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: a-lu-gun. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 5, Arctic, fig. 7, pg. 191." Illus. Fig. 28, 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.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=191, retrieved 9-5-2012: Spoon, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag luuskaaq "spoon" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Kodiak Island dialect) This spoon was cut and molded from the heat-softened horn of a wild mountain goat. The carved handle depicts two animals with large ears, the lower one with white beads for eyes. The spoon came from Kodiak Island where mountain goats are absent, but horns of the animals were acquired in trade from villages in Prince William Sound and along the Kenai Peninsula.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Island / Orlova (Eagle Harbor), 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: 014024
label: USNM Number
content: E90429-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 15 cm