Spoon Item Number: E168368-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "SHELL. ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; PL. 9, NO. 5; P. 48."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 32 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List identifies as "Type of old spoon, consisting of a small clam shell set in wooden handle lashed with spruce root."Listed on page 42 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on April 17, 1894
What
- Name
- Spoon
- Identification Number
- E168368-0
- Type of Item
- spoon
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Sitka
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
- Received from
- U. S. Department of the Navy
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on April 17, 1894
Other
- Accession Number
- 028072