From card: "Skidgate collection."Incised and carved relief decoration on front, floral motifs, including compass-drawn motifs. Decorative bone inlays.

Detail of handle is illus. Fig. 393, p. 284 in Fitzhugh, William W., and Aron Crowell. 1988. Crossroads of continents: cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Identified there: "The handle ... of the Haida spoon features a dragonfly holding a man in its mouth. Though collected from the Haida in the Queen Charlotte Islands, the treatment is reminiscent of Tlingit work, in which representations of the dragonfly also occur."