Spoon Item Number: 2335 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
Feast spoons were often made in sets, matched in size and with similar decorations. The three spoons in the collection of the Burke Museum are probably part of a much larger set. Lieutenant George Emmons collected them at Wrangell. The creature on this spoon was identified by Emmons as a frog. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is black and red.
Item History
- Received from George T. Emmons
What
- Name
- Spoon
- Identification Number
- 2335
- Type of Item
- spoon
- Material
- maple wood and paint
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved and painted
- Overall
- length 37.0 cm, width 10.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Received from
- George T. Emmons
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Purchased from George T. Emmons
- Motif
- Frog | Formline
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection