Spoon Item Number: A2482 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Spoon that has a small bowl with a long handle flattened at the butt end which has an incised design of a bird near the tip. The bird's head is in profile facing downward along the lower portion of the upper end of the handle. Bird has a circle in tapering oval in ovoid eye with a curved beak. Four pinched rectangular designs incised in decreasing size down along the lower portion of the handle from the beak. Has a two-feathered side wing and a four-feathered tail. Word 'SKAGWAY" is scratched on the back of the bowl.
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA ?
- Owned by Walter C. Koerner before April 8, 1976
- Received from Walter C. Koerner (Donor) on April 8, 1976
What
- Name
- Spoon
- Identification Number
- A2482
- Type of Item
- spoon
- Material
- copper metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- cut, hammered and incised
- Overall
- height 17.7 cm, width 3.2 cm, depth 1.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Northwest Coast
- Previous Owner
- Walter C. Koerner
- Received from
- Walter C. Koerner (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Alaska, USA ?
When
- Ownership Date
- before April 8, 1976
- Acquisition Date
- on April 8, 1976
Other
- Item Classes
- metalwork
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 42
- Accession Number
- 0336/0107