Spoon Item Number: 1922.951 A-B from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Context
'B: Exhibited in the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby in 'Smoking Coasts and Ice-bound Seas, Cook's Voyage to the Arctic' Feb- November 2008'A: Made of goat's horn from the Dene and B: made of sheep's horn, from Prince William Sound. From notes by J.C.H. King June 2014B: Exhibited: On loan to Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage, at the Anchorage Museum, Alaska, 27 March- 7 September 2015; and the Washington State Historical Museum Tacoma/Seattle 16 October- 10 January 2016
Item History
- Made in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA
- Received from Cook Collection, Ashton Lever, Leverian Museum, James Parkinson, John Rowe, Arthur Howe Holdsworth, Widdicombe House Collection and Louis C.G Clarke during 1922
What
- Name
- Spoon
- Identification Number
- 1922.951 A-B
- Type of Item
- spoon
- Material
- horn and mountain goat horn
Who
- Culture
- Tanaina ?
- Received from
- Cook Collection, Ashton Lever, Leverian Museum, James Parkinson, John Rowe, Arthur Howe Holdsworth, Widdicombe House Collection and Louis C.G Clarke
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1922
Other
- Keyword
- Food Preparation; Ceremonial Objects