Spoon Item Number: A2116 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Spoon with oval shaped bowl and short thin handle. The end of the handle is bent downwards into a finial. Spoon is made from one piece of mountain goat horn, dark brown in colour.
History Of Use
Along the Northwest Coast, in general, undecorated spoons of wood and horn were used in everyday life, while more elaborately carved versions were used on special occassions. Horn spoons were often passed down in families as heirlooms, such spoons are generally darker in colour than those of recent manufacture. The bowls of these spoons are too large to place in the mouth, so food is sipped from the sides or the end.
Cultural Context
household utensil; domestic
Specific Techniques
Niblack notes that: "The bowl [of the horn spoon] comes from the largest part; the handle runs the full length to the tip, and afterwards is straightened out by steaming in a wooden mould made in two pieces, and scored out inside to the required shape (1970:318)."
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada
- Received from Unknown (Unknown)
What
- Name
- Spoon
- Identification Number
- A2116
- Type of Item
- spoon
- Material
- mountain goat horn
- Manufacturing Technique
- steamed, shaped and carved
- Overall
- height 5.1 cm, width 17.5 cm, depth 6.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Coast Salish: Sto:lo ?
- Received from
- Unknown (Unknown)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada
Other
- Condition
- good
- Current Location
- Case 7