Spoon with Handle in Shape of Bird's Head Item Number: 63.201.1 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
This extremely graceful spoon is carved from one piece of horn that has beautiful amber and brown striations in its coloring. The bowl is very thin and large. The handle is a round delicate tube that curves from the bowl and after a length curves back almost 180 degrees to culminate in a water bird head with a long open beak.
Credit Line
Dick s. Ramsay Fund
Item History
- Made between 1801 and 1900
What
Who
- Culture
- Plains
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1801 and 1900
Other
- Location
- Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
- Classification
- Food/Drink