Though catalogued as Tlingit, Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, says this basket is not of Tlingit manufacture. 3-2003.

FROM CARD: "BLADE OF NEPHRITE. HANDLE OF WOOD, NOTCHED IN ON BOTH SIDES OF THE TOP. REFER TO: GEORGE T. EMMONS:" JADE IN BRIT. COLUMBIA AND ALASKA, & ITS USE BY THE NATIVES, HEYE FOUNDATION, INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS, NO. 35, 1923, N.Y., PP.36-7, ILL.PL.10."

FROM CARD: "20820-5: ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42; FIGS. 227-240; P.318." Identified in the publication as from Kake Tlingit. FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SPOONS.---MADE OF WOOD. USED ESPECIALLY FOR BERRIES, BY ALL NORTHWEST INDIAN TRIBES. KAKE INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 20,820-25. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. 20820-25 NEG. NO.6212."Florence Sheakley made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. These spoons are made of yellow cedar. All of these were made by the same carver. The paddles were made first, and then the carvings were added, but it is unclear why there are holes on the spoons. These spoons were used for blending and making soapberries, which fluff up, similar to a meringue. This is in a set of four, E20819-0, E20821-0, E20823-0, E20824-0

Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 3 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List also identifies object as "Horn of the mountain goat in preparation of manufacture for spoon handle. It has been partially shaped and roughly cut, and is now ready to be worked down and ornamentally carved."