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FROM CARD: "SPOON.---MADE OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT HORN. THE HANDLE IS THE UPPER PORTION OF THE HORN IN ITS NATURAL SHAPE, ORNAMENTED WITH TOTEMIC FIGURES CARVED IN RELIEF. THE BOWL IS SHAPED BY STEAMING THE HORN IN A WOODEN MOLD. THE COLOR OF THE BOWL AT THE UPPER END IS BLACK BUT GRADUALLY SHADES INTO A YELLOW. ENTIRE SPOON MADE OF ONE HORN. LENGTH, 13 1/4 INCHES; WIDTH OF BOWL, 4 1/4 INCHES. INDIANS OF ALASKA. 23,432. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. ENTERED, JUNE 12, 1876."
Listed on page 50 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".
Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists this as from Sitka, Alaska. Sitka was mistranscribed as Sitlsa on typed catalogue card.
FROM CARD: "LADLES OF HORN OF THE BIG-HORN SHEEP. FROM: PAGE 62, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 46. CARVED BOWL OR LADLE, HORN; CARVED HEAD. LENGTH: 9 1/4 [INCHES]. COLLECTED BY GEORGE GIBBS."