Spoon Item Number: 1944.53; Z 14928 B from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Horn spoon, the bowl and handle made separately and riveted together by copper rivets, elaborately decorated with conventionalised animals, totemic figures, etc. carved in the round on the handle and engraved on the back of the bowl.; Good
This spoon had been given a Z number, Z 14928 B, but in black ink the original catalogue number is visible. The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.; On the catalogue card a note reads, Swanton (The Haida: Jessup N-W Amer. Exped., etc.) says that in such composite spoons the handle is usually made of mountain goat and the bowl of mountain sheep horn. (Bio) Lady Woodward Smith