Spoon
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1902
Materials
Horn
Measurements
180 mm (Length)605 mm (W)
Place of origin
British Columbia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303980
Summary
A spoon made by the Coast Indians from the horn of a Rocky Mountain goat; with dished bowl and curved handle decorated with carved animal and bird heads including a frog, a bird and a fox. The eyes inlaid with circles of mother of pearl. Collected 1902. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in British Columbia in 1902